Writer Quotes · Page 51

You write your life story by the choices you make,

— Helen Mirren

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slow and in a good writing

— Antonio Machado

I don't like to write boring books.

— Frank Peretti

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

“~Reading a book is like looking through a window!”

— Zetta Hupf

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

“nothing furnishes a room like books”

— Terry Fallis

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

— Billy Strayhorn

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

— Paolo Nutini

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

— Candace Bushnell

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

— J. B. Priestley

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

“I am not a great reader and I have pleasure in many things.”

— Jane Austen

“No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson”

— Edmund Wilson

“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

— Stephen King

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of…

— Ray Bradbury

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

— Celeste Ng

“ 'You're there, but the books draw you in to whole other worlds. I mean, I know you study more serious things…

— Caethes Faron

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding…

— Malcolm Cowley

I find that reading is a super important habit. It's one of the best ways to get centered, to find a new…

— Jay Shetty

“My advice to writers is this: Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn,…

— S. Alex Martin

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like…

— Zadie Smith

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like…

— Patrick Modiano

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the…

— Alan Lightman

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading…

— Tess Gerritsen

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No…

— Anne Lamott

“I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised…

— Susan Mallery

“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information,…

— Gina Sheridan

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…

— Neil Gaiman

When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be…

— Raghib Clitso

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

— Brooke Hogan

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

— Dav Pilkey

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

— Herman Koch

I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.

— Jen Sincero

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

— Jodi Picoult

“Do not let reading become a forgotten art”

— Carmela Dutra

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

— Marsha Norman

I treat writing like a nine to five job.

— Dawn O'Porter