Writer Quotes · Page 484

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

— Joe Hill

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.”

— Peggy A. Borel

In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

— Andrew Shaffer

“Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.”

— Warren Buffett

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

— Frankie Cosmos

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form…

— Terence McKenna

“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written”

— Don Newman

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.”

— Carl T. Rowan

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author…

— Howard Jacobson

“ Writing on Paper A benefit of writing in a paper journal is that the only limitation is the size of the…

— Heather Moehn

“LOVE JUNKIE travels tenderly and boldly into the despair, isolation, and tenacity of sex and love addiction. Rachel Resnick's gift for language…

— Kelly McDaniel

“6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question…

— Danzy Senna

“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others…

— Cassi Janzek

“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had…

— Roy F. Baumeister

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I…

— Jesmyn Ward

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

“Killed by a librarian with a red card," said Jerry. "that's got to be embarrassing.”

— John Joseph Adams

I've always written about stuff I have gone through.

— Adam Gontier

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

— Alec Baldwin

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

There comes a time when you have to chose between turning the page and closing the book…

— Melchor Lim

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green

“If investors only had to study the past, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Daniel Pecaut

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace