Writer Quotes · Page 510

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

— Gerald Clarke

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

— Allison Williams

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

— Tony Hillerman

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

— Howard Jacobson

“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it…

— Truman Capote

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

— Walter Mosley

“It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.”

— Alain de Botton

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with…

— Ernest Dimnet

“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide…

— Vanna Bonta

“The final option to have your book completed is to hire a ghost writer. The challenge with this option is that it…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and…

— Michael Piller

it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who…

— Jilly Cooper

“One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are…

— Bauvard

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass…

— Wilford Woodruff

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what…

— Susan Sontag

“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,…

— Anonymous

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

— Jodi Picoult

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

— Virginia Woolf

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”

— Julie Rodelli

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

— Stefflon Don

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon