Writer Quotes · Page 485

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

— John Ashbery

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'…

— Paul Johnson

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day…

— Leonard Wolf

“The toy soldiers gathered a few more flakes of dust on their shelves; the books stayed shut and squeezed together, telling their…

— Emma Trevayne

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Is a twist less satisfying if you know it’s coming? Is a twist that you can’t predict symptomatic of bad construction? These…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it…

— Ernest Hemingway

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.…

— Orson Scott Card

In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“For some of us books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of…

— Ann Lamott

Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off…

— Hilary Mantel

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of…

— Colum McCann

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write,…

— Jason Robert Brown

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally…

— Adam Green

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

— George Saunders

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

— Ken Kesey

“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

— John Lennon

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

— Ricky Gervais

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

— Italo Calvino

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

— Joseph Haydn