Writer Quotes · Page 539

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

— Wallace Stegner

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

— Melissa Marr

“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife”

— Wilkie Collins

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read

— Anonymous

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

— John Gould

Knowledge not only from books, the passions that motivate

— Mak_786

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

— Michaela Coel

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if…

— E. B. White

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of…

— Burhan Sonmez

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to…

— Harlan Coben

“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a…

— Emoke B'Racz

“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.”

— Ashim Shanker

I knew very early on I wanted to be a television writer. My teachers told me I was a strong writer and…

— Lena Waithe

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

— Dan Poynter

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of…

— F. Sionil Jose

“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only…

— Sarah Manguso

“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,…

— Alexei Panshin

“A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed…

— Rebecca Maizel

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil…

— Lee Child

One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are.…

— Daniel H. Pink

I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about…

— Kirko Bangz

“Hope knew that her thinking regarding books went contrary to the general sentiment of the people of Eden. Books were seen as…

— David Bergen

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

— Jane Brody

“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

— Seth Godin

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

— Jim Gaffigan

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

— Richard Flanagan

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

— Robert Sheckley

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry

I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books.

— Andi Oliver

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

— Steve Martin

Man never stop to scrolling,until his chapter is't closed

— Kavinder Kanwar

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

— Christopher Morley

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

— Lord Byron

“Book authors are born where credentials meet platform.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

“Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.”

— Beth Hoffman

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

— Robert D. Putnam