Writer Quotes · Page 491

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

— Andrew Lang

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

— Tyler Cowen

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

— Vikram Seth

“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.”

— Sonia Cunningham Leverette

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

— Martin Luther

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if…

— Richard Ford

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

— Howard Jacobson

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or…

— Larry Brooks

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I…

— Dan Chaon

“And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes…

— Jennifer Echols

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all…

— Ellie Goulding

“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.”

— Stephen King

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved…

— Laini Taylor

“Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And…

— Sherman Alexie

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is…

— Gore Vidal

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room…

— Gabby Barrett

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Last week my boss told me to rewrite a twenty-page proposal on engagement benchmarking. I turned it in and he wrote a…

— Jenny Lawson

“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of…

— robert m drake

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

— Christine Leunens

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

— Abraham Lincoln

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

— Warren Zevon

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

— Firoozeh Dumas

“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.”

— Mara Altman

“Apparently the law of Inertia affects writing too.”

— A.A. Cheshire

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

— Cheech Marin

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk