Writer Quotes · Page 516

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

— Antonia Fraser

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

— David Mamet

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

— Robert Sternberg

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

— Maryanne Wolf

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”

— C. Toni Graham

“Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.”

— Russ Olsen

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

— John Green

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the…

— Manisha Koirala

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They…

— Michael Chabon

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

— Italo Calvino

“I recently enjoyed Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh—both dark, strange, a bit uncomfortable,…

— Roxane Gay

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry…

— Cornelia Funke

If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth…

— Jason Reynolds

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to…

— Jodi Picoult

There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing…

— Robert Cormier

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel…

— Andre Dubus

“If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well…

— James D. Houston

“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I…

— Tony Gaskins Jr

“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being…

— Roland Barthes

“If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it…

— Andrew Killeen

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

“May I have a few friends and many books - both true.”

— Anonymous

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

— Chuck Palahniuk

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”

— Thomas Wharton

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

— Jonathan Zittrain

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”

— Julie Rugg

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

— Barbara Kingsolver

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

— Quentin Tarantino