Writer Quotes · Page 533

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

— Anonymous

“If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!”

— Shobana

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

— Peter Kay

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

— Bessie Head

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

— Kathleen Norris

“I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head. (A Monstrous Regiment of Women)”

— Anonymous

“When you write something down, you give yourself permission to forget.”

— Mindy Welch

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had…

— Joanna Scott

“The more you can remove any stakes or pressure—just write as fast as you can type—it’s going to come out better.”

— Mike Sacks

If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals…

— Paul G. Tremblay

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have…

— LeAnn Rimes

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They…

— Alan Bennett

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom…

— Christopher Hitchens

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at…

— Richard Bach

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something…

— Tim Cahill

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You…

— Richard Hell

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.…

— Don Winslow

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic…

— Ann M. Martin

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best…

— Lindsay Duncan

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

— Heston Blumenthal

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

— John Lanchester

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

— Samuel Johnson

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

— Max Frisch

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

— John Grisham

Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.

— Gene Shalit

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.”

— A.J. Garces

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

— Patrick Carman

“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.”

— Richard Denney

“When i discovered how precious a book was, i burn a candle on a book every night.”

— Oladeji jeremy

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.”

— Charlotte Eriksson