Writer Quotes · Page 535

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

— Yann Martel

“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”

— Pamela Glass Kelly

“THEY STOLE YOUR STYLE BUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW ”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“Thank you for buying this Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook.   To”

— Thomas L. Friedman

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

— John Updike

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain

— John Keats

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

— Clairo

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

— Henning Mankell

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even…

— Rohan Marley

When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us…

— Joanna Scott

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my…

— Maya Angelou

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books…

— Chetan Bhagat

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I…

— C. S. Forester

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

— Kevin Morby

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's…

— Steven Pressfield

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...…

— Isaac Asimov

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book…

— R. A. Torrey

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good…

— Laura Miller

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that…

— Julia Glass

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving…

— Nick Earls

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory.…

— Mohsin Hamid

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

“‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing”

— Mariam Kobras

“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

— John Clute

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

— Jerry Stahl

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

— Grace Metalious

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it…

— Tom Clancy

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

— Andy Andrews

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

— Alfred Kazin

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

— Adam Page

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

— Julien Green

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

— J. K. Rowling