Writer Quotes · Page 476

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

— Zoe Sugg

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

— Catherine Tresa

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his…

— E.M. Forster

“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.…

— Robert Stone

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.

— Deon Meyer

“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing”

— Eugène Ionesco

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm…

— Jim Rash

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would…

— Robert Herrick

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

— Ray Bradbury

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a…

— Ray Bradbury

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the…

— William Styron

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody…

— Emma Donoghue

Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying…

— Myriam Gurba

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my…

— Sasa Stanisic

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are…

— Susan Orlean

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

— Robin Sloan

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

— Anais Nin

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

— Sarah J. Maas

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover