Writer Quotes · Page 524

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

— Nolan Bushnell

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

— Julia Alvarez

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Don't write me. Write like you. Nobody else can do that.”

— J.K. Rowling

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

— Bethenny Frankel

“I never feel lonely if I've got a book; they're like old friends.”

— Emilia Fox

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded,…

— Brian Aldiss

“It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors.”

— Emily Giffin

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is…

— Karan Mahajan

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,…

— Richard Hell

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and…

— Dale Spender

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

— Ted Dekker

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are…

— Anonymous

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

— Elif Safak

“Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to…

— Jodi Picoult

“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that…

— Alice Munro

“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want…

— David Foster Wallace

“That’s why you should flip through the pages so that someday you’d be an ebook author. So doing you’d save a newer…

— S. A. David

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it…

— Anthony Doerr

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed…

— Alex Haley

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

— Mason Cooley

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

— Rick Moody

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

— Michael Morpurgo

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

— Jimmy Buffett

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

— David B. Coe

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

— Alberto Moravia

“one of the mugs, robin saw, read keep clam and proofread”

— Robert Galbraith

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

— Joanne Harris

I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

— Steve Dildarian

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

— Rebecca Miller

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

— David James Duncan

“Read a book, and broaden your perspective on life.”

— Marcia Carrington

“books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions”

— Marty Asher

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

— Isabel Allende