Writer Quotes · Page 483

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

— Tony Hillerman

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

— Claire Tomalin

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

— Stephen King

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure…

— James Madison

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick'…

— Spencer Boldman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to…

— Austin Grossman

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all…

— Nathan Bransford

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being…

— John Grisham

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise…

— Anita Brookner

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

— Wendy Cope

“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about…

— Josh Prince

I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If…

— Carmen Agra Deedy

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake…

— Franz Kafka

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to…

— Kelela

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader,…

— Richard Howard

Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits…

— L. Ron Hubbard

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink.…

— Renata Adler

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

— T. J. Miller

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.”

— Alain de Botton

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

— Ernest Hemingway

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

— Anonymous