Writer Quotes · Page 512

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

— John Lanchester

“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

“I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.”

— Ann Marie Frohoff

“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity”

— Malcolm X

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

“The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child’s hands.…

— Kenny Pieper

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this…

— James Thurber

I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.

— Mark Frost

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to…

— Lynda Barry

Thanks!It's not a long book but it's taken a year to write. It's fnially [read: FINALLY!!! YAYAYAYAY!] feeling ready for my editors!…

— Auth

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own…

— Kristy Swanson

“Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide…

— Uma Nnenna

“You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.”

— Jay McLean

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be…

— Jim Woodring

“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before…

— Veronica Roth

“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to…

— C. JoyBell C

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your…

— Kathleen Edwards

Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual…

— Christopher Beha

“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always…

— Isaac Asimov

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

— Teri Garr

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.”

— Leslie Cockburn

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”

— William Faulkner

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

— Jeet Thayil

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

— robert m drake

“to read or not to read... that is a silly question”

— Harlequin

“Virginia Wolf once said, “I ransack libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.”

— Lili Valente

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

— Kingsley Amis