Writer Quotes · Page 490

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.”

— Richard Peck

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

— Ajith Kumar

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

I'm one of those people who had written my will by the age of 35.

— Tess Daly

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.

— Jean Kerr

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

— St Augustine

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live…

— Patrick Nowell-Smith

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four…

— Gail Tsukiyama

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world…

— Orhan Pamuk

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader…

— S. E. Hinton

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only…

— Edna Ferber

I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I…

— Robert Cormier

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.…

— Stephen Malkmus

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I spend the rest of the night doing schoolwork. After striking a match and lighting a candal, I sit down at my…

— Fanny Merkin

Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of…

— Debra Ginsberg

“Books are a bad family - there are those you love, and those you are indifferent to; idiots and mad cousins who…

— Elizabeth McCracken

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should…

— Marisha Pessl

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get…

— Lisa Scottoline

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to…

— Chris Bohjalian

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely…

— Leslie Jamison

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily…

— Anonymous

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

— Heinrich Heine

When I did the zero draft for Six of Crows,' it was a very organic process.

— Leigh Bardugo

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

Doing readings is so gratifying that it makes any physical intensity worth it for me.

— Tyler Henry

“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.”

— Jaako J. Wallenius

“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.”

— David Diringer

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Everything maybe pre-written but nothing is rewritten.

— Anonymous

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote