Writer Quotes · Page 465

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

— Margaret Atwood

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of…

— Neil Simon

“Reading a non-fiction book feels like a religious experience that forever moves my mind and shifts my heart toward greater knowledge.”

— Rachel V Perry

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind…

— Amiri Baraka

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything…

— David McCullough

“I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will…

— Alfa H

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in…

— Pico Iyer

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most…

— Anais Nin

“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In…

— Jonathan Taplin

Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That…

— Peter Orner

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing,…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents…

— Elliot Perlman

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always…

— Martha Cooley

“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort…

— Alan Jacobs

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

— Stephen King

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

— Anonymous

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.”

— Peter V. Brett

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

— Francoise Sagan

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

— Stephen King