Writer Quotes · Page 518

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

— Tori Spelling

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

— Steve Buscemi

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Reading reverses the aging of the brain and keeps your brain healthy and young.”

— Rosalyn Noel

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

— Nancy Byrd Turner

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

— John Derbyshire

“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot…

— Kendall Hailey

“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.”

— Georg Lukacs

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

— Margaret Atwood

Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel…

— Tana French

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are…

— Richard Denney

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure…

— Max Muller

I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming…

— Lena Dunham

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

— Donna Tartt

The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in…

— Aminatta Forna

“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the…

— Philip Roth

“(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?') There are three problems with…

— Patricia C. Wrede

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you…

— Jasper Fforde

“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty…

— Geraldine Brooks

A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how…

— Garth Greenwell

“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.”

— Anna Glazebrook

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

— Alan Bradley

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”

— Zaman Ali

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

— Erica Brown

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

Books are for only those who can live without television.

— Vikrant Parsai

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

“I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.”

— Shahla Khan

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

— Garrison Keillor

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson