Writer Quotes · Page 462

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

As a writer, I need a creative outlet and that's why I do stand-up.

— Soupy Sales

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

— James Joyce

“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

— Anonymous

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

— Lynn Coady

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

— Arthur Bradford

“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own…

— Sarah Gerdes

I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second…

— Dan Mangan

“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.”

— Thomas King

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and…

— Chloe Benjamin

“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing…

— Hélène Cixous

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a…

— Jim Trelease

“Getting a flow going with writing can be hard, but sometimes if you dig into the right emotions that you want to…

— Faith Clarkson

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you…

— Paul Rudnick

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice…

— Alexander Pope

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the…

— Jeff Kinney

“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest…

— James W. Pennebaker

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…

— Lynne Truss

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected…

— Lorin Stein

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the…

— Suzanne Vega

I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in…

— Molly Antopol

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

— Dana Schutz

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

— Orna Ross

“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?”

— Karen Joy Fowler

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

— Jose Saramago

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

— L.L. Barkat

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

— Kingsley Amis

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

— Enid Nemy

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

— Anonymous

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

— Ray Bradbury

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

— Morley Callaghan

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

— Kathleen Norris

“I am only an agent of creativity and I write in order to start an argument and not to conclude it.”

— John Nkemngong Nkengasong

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

— Barry Lane

“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”

— Millicent Ashby