Writer Quotes · Page 517

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.

— Christine Hanrahan

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

— Jennifer Egan

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

— Marv Wolfman

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

— Pete Hautman

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,…

— Janette Turner Hospital

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a…

— Tim Winton

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was…

— Anonymous

Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her…

— Sarah Weinman

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

— Donalyn Miller

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things…

— Kameron Hurley

“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to…

— Nancie Atwell

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid…

— David Bowie

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the…

— Quentin Tarantino

“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us…

— Marcel Proust

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.…

— Yann Martel

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the…

— William Zinsser

“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific…

— Madeleine L'Engle

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

— Christopher Smart

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

— Erle Stanley Gardner

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

— Alice Mattison

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

— Sarah Cooper

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

— Terry Bozzio

“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.”

— Annette Whitaker-Moss

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

— Bob Hope

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

— Iain Banks

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

— John Wieners

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

— Larry Wall

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

— John Irving

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.

— SZA