Writer Quotes · Page 508

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

— George Eliot

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

— Anonymous

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

— Emily Saliers

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up…

— Philip Pullman

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

— Michael Dirda

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude…

— Robyn Davidson

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

— Francis Bacon

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live…

— Henry Miller

“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose…

— Anonymous

'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of…

— John Bright

“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were…

— Darryl Pinckney

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many…

— Don DeLillo

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of…

— Lorde

“Manto's take on Ismat: "Ismat’s pen and tongue both run fast. When she starts writing, her ideas race ahead and the words…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than…

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just…

— Steve Toltz

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few…

— Frank Pierson

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

— James Ivory

“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.”

— ChristaCarol Jones

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

— Peter Greenaway

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“❝ fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies into meaning.❞”

— dorothy allison

“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet”

— Charlie Jones

I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

— Sam Hunt

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”

— Martin Myers

“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”

— Criss Jami

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple