Writer Quotes · Page 529

Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.

— Michelle Dean

I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.

— Greg Kurstin

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”

— Richard Peck

“NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTH YOUR GREATNESS SO LET THEM STEAL TIME WILL REVEAL”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

— Haddon W. Robinson

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

— Jane Smiley

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

— Amitava Kumar

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

— Elie Wiesel

A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.

— Jack Monroe

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to…

— Jo Nesbo

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken…

— Tracy Chevalier

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally…

— Pat Conroy

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then…

— Ravi Subramanian

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do…

— Tom Perrotta

“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are…

— Hélène Cixous

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in…

— Iris Johansen

“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity…

— Herman Melville

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,…

— Hilary Mantel

I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that…

— Donald E. Westlake

“Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the…

— Neil Gaiman

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

— Jeffery Deaver

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

— Ernest Dimnet

I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.

— Joel Edgerton

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

— Bebe Rexha

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)”

— Paul Theroux

Books create eras and nations, just as eras and nations create books.

— Anonymous

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

— Carl Sandburg

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

— Charles Bukowski

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

— Paul Theroux

“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”

— Slash Coleman

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Caroline Thompson

Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.

— Heinrich Boll