Writer Quotes · Page 536

“Librarians. . . have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.”

— Joseph Bruchac

“If a writer is daydreaming, leave them be. They could be plotting their next great story.”

— Graeme Roberts

It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business .

— Adam Stanley

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

— Stewart Brand

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

— Len Wein

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,

— Andrea Hirata

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.

— Paul Auster

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

“A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..”

— Himmilicious

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in…

— Shane Warren Jones

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a…

— Anis Shivani

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push…

— Marc Guggenheim

I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a…

— Paul Lynch

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and…

— Robert Coover

“You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible.”

— Austin Kleon

“My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving…

— Barbara Delinsky

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,…

— Maya Angelou

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we…

— Robert Frost

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive…

— Elmore Leonard

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship…

— William Faulkner

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a…

— Wole Soyinka

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only…

— Louis L'Amour

“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

— Jonathan Carroll

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

— Richie Benaud

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

— Daniel Clowes

“On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.”

— Joseph E. Persico

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

— Mat Kearney

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.

— Karin Slaughter

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.”

— Ariel Gore

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

— Marge Piercy

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

— G. N. Devy

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

— Alastair Reynolds