Writer Quotes · Page 497

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

— Rumaan Alam

“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”

— Róbert Gál

“Bachelor visits library, books wife (nonfiction). --Michael Perry”

— SMITH Magazine

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

— Norton Juster

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

— Clint Smith

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will…

— Tony Kushner

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is…

— O. Henry

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be…

— Ruby Bentall

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,…

— Maya Angelou

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just…

— Sinclair Lewis

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are…

— Julia Glass

“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more…

— Richard Thomas

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you…

— Walter Dean Myers

As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret…

— Elizabeth Crook

The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide…

— Emma Donoghue

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better…

— Eduardo Galeano

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification…

— Leland Ryken

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night…

— Carolyn Chute

“I find that the writing of a memoir has two functions. One is to pass on, as much as you’re willing to…

— Neil Simon

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.”

— Gary Corby

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

— Jim Rohn

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.”

— Wendy Stanphill

“A good writer is a word fertilizer, a thought sanitizer...”

— Anonymous

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

— Lord Byron

“Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.”

— Natalie Goldberg

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

— Ann M. Martin

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

— John Steinbeck

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

— Horace Walpole

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

— Terry Pratchett

“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!”

— Chocolate Waters

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb