Writer Quotes · Page 477

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

— Kelsey Grammer

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

— Janet Flanner

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”

— Linda Lafferty

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -…

— Joss Whedon

Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.'…

— Chris Chibnall

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

— Mac Barnett

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the…

— Piers Anthony

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover…

— Ba Jin

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.

— Leigh Bardugo

“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I have always wanted to record my daily life and personal thoughts, but I didn’t have the chance because the Priest never…

— Mark Mulle

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a…

— Elif Batuman

Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the…

— Derrick Jensen

“These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all…

— Dan Brown

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held…

— Paul Auster

“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that…

— H.O. Charles

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you…

— Lily King

“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets…

— Paul Collins

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

— Maya Angelou

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When you read and write good books a divine force will turn you good”

— Smart Oyejide

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.

— Paul Heyman

“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to become a librarian.”

— Paulina Porizkova

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

— Eudora Welty

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

— Simon Schama

“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN”

— Hal Elrod

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

— Criss Jami

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

— Bob Seger

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld