Writer Quotes · Page 534

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

— Cory Doctorow

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

— Stephen King

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

— Ryohgo Narita

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

— Gladys Taber

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

— John Banville

“Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.”

— Annie Barrows

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

— Joan Didion

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's…

— Jack Dann

Life is like a book; Dont jump to the end to see if its worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the…

— Anonymous

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say…

— Hanif Kureishi

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

— Sophie Kinsella

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have…

— Nicholson Baker

“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a…

— Hal Duncan

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which…

— Tom Barbash

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had…

— Cornelia Funke

“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel…

— Martin Amis

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the…

— Tom Hooper

“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep…

— Trent Zelazny

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from…

— Kevin Myers

Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested…

— Rebecca Serle

“Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered." Bryant's blue eyes widened. "Good Lord, no, why would you want…

— Christopher Fowler

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

— Marie Rutkoski

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

— James N. Frey

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

— Alex Turner

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

— Nick Flynn

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

— Morgan Saylor

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

— Ezra Furman

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

— Sai Baba

“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.”

— Alan Jacobs

“Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too”

— HEINRICH HEINE

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

— Liu Cixin

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

— Jeremy Irons

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

— Tracy K. Smith

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

— Snoh Aalegra

“Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything.”

— Anonymous