Writer Quotes · Page 506

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

— Kate Morton

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”

— Ivor W. Hartmann

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

— Taika Waititi

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

— Aldous Huxley

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.”

— Kelly Gallagher

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I…

— Abraham Verghese

“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

I like to write about lots of things in real life that people can relate to, that people can I guess connect…

— Cody Simpson

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

“and although the young writer never met his literary mentor, the spiritual connection between the two writers would never be dissolved.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves…

— Mary Oliver

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to…

— Tessa Hadley

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

— George R. R. Martin

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked…

— Arianna Huffington

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby…

— Annie Dillard

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people.…

— Fay Wray

“Why did you take this job?” I ask. “It doesn’t make sense. You’re so young—” “It was an honor to be promoted,”…

— Victoria Schwab

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

— Arthur Miller

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

“That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.”

— Ruth Downie

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

— E. M. Forster

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

— Taylor Caldwell

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

“An insightful book possesses the ability to speak to you”

— I.R. Shankar

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes