Writer Quotes · Page 50

“There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.”

— Diva Jefferson

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

— Laura Bush

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

— William Maxwell

With a book he was regardless of time.

— Jane Austen

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

“Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?”

— Angela D'Ambrosio

“A book worn out, is a book well used.”

— Kate Ashley

“There is nothing better than a quiet night, a cup of tea, and a quiet place to read a good book,”

— Deb Pearson

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.”

— Jo Linsdell

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small…

— Amos Oz

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader…

— John Updike

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now…

— Danielle Steel

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

— Jonah Lehrer

“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I…

— Louis Begley

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to…

— Philip Pullman

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like…

— Marlee Matlin

“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two…

— Lisa Kleypas

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until…

— Jane Yolen

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of…

— John Edgar Wideman

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot…

— Rebecca Stead

“Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because…

— Sarah Schulman

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

“I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for…

— Jon Spoelstra

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“a writer’s brand builds slowly, person by person.”

— Sean Platt

Just write what comes to you.

— Anna Todd

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

— Leslie Fiedler

I want to be a writer someday.

— Andrea Barber

The balls do not make a writer.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writing is still on my slate.

— Jaleel White