Writer Quotes · Page 488

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.”

— Lorenzo de' Medici

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

— Omar Benson Miller

“A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”

— Markus Zusak

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

— Shaun Evans

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

— Anne Lamott

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then…

— Charlie Trotter

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

— Thomas Aquinas

Us na kaha ya tara sara roona maray leya he to ta ……...jan…… aakhir wo jan he gaya mari muhabat k sheedat…

— Anab Rafiq

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New…

— Cyril Connolly

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

— Toni Morrison

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

— D. H. Lawrence

“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best…

— Sarah Smith

I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on…

— Lindy West

Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence…

— Michael Bywater

I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right…

— Tosca Lee

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is…

— Jeremiah Brent

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,…

— Julia Cameron

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team…

— Tim LaHaye

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is…

— Neal Stephenson

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

— Luther Standing Bear

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

— Jim Gaffigan

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”

— Anonymous

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

— Neel Mukherjee

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.”

— Manoj Arora

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel