Writer Quotes · Page 451

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

— Paloma Faith

If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene.

— Graham Linehan

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

— Kiese Laymon

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

“I am working on two new non-fiction ebooks for publication in January and February 2018.”

— Lawrence E. Wilson

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

— Mo Rocca

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

— Edward Gibbon

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion…

— David Liss

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just…

— Wole Soyinka

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is…

— Ogden Nash

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

— Judith Kelman

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that…

— Gracie Abrams

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,…

— Anonymous

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of…

— Katherine Paterson

Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.…

— James Salter

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in…

— Joshua Ferris

What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees…

— John Green

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to…

— Joan Aiken

“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If…

— Richard Rhodes

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

“I write down my dreams. I use the excuse “I’m writing” to sleep all the time.”

— Jarod Kintz

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan

“When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.”

— Lewis Carroll

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

— Robert Greene

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

— Andy Biersack

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

— Stephen King

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

— Anne Lamott

“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.”

— Hugh Howey

“Okay, you guys, look up here. Omar did something good readers do.”

— Cris Tovani

“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

— Alice James

“Wait until you get inside. It's my favorite part.' And yes, gentle readers, I am that fucking smooth.”

— C.J. Roberts

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

— Judi Dench

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

— Tim LaHaye

“I’m going to the library to taunt an animal dumber than me. Boys count.”

— Sara Wolf