Writer Quotes · Page 463

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

— Anne Fadiman

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

— Nick Denton

“is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield”

— Salinger Jd

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

— Cecelia Ahern

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

— Robin Sloan

“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.”

— Charles Medawar

“Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of…

— Marie Corelli

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

— Vincent Canby

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

— Rod Serling

“Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small…

— Robin R. Meyers

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go…

— Taylor Sheridan

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with…

— Linwood Barclay

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they…

— Aldous Huxley

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.…

— Lisa Lutz

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got…

— Alan Moore

If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something…

— Charles Adams

Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover…

— Paulo Coelho

My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost…

— Rick Yancey

“We also wish to make it absolutely clear that Librarians should not attempt to use the Library to transport dinosaur eggs. And…

— Genevieve Cogman

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

— Michael Pollan

“I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.”

— Tom Clancy

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

— Anne Carson

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.”

— Shannon Alder

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

— Adriana Trigiani

“I've read about a chapter a night in the Book of Magic. I'm almost finished with it.”

— Candace Knoebel

“Don't cry for publishers, paper books ain't dying.”

— Declan Conner

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

— Sarah Waters

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

— Richard Wright

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

— Elvis Costello

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

— Aravind Adiga

“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”

— Nona King

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

— Lionel Shriver