Writer Quotes · Page 540

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

— George Pelecanos

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

— William Faulkner

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

I write not because I'm free but because everyday I find some time for myself¦

— Nishan Panwar

“Structure doesn't make a story formulaic. The writer does.”

— Peter Arpesella

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

— Dwight Yoakam

“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.”

— Stephen King

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

— Ray Bradbury

“Don't be afraid to be the new kid on the block. Pay attention and respect the more seasoned writers around you, but…

— L.A. Lewandowski

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral…

— Piper Kerman

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface…

— Megan Chance

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

— William Gibson

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

— Richard Allington

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“If you aren't writing perfection, don't stop and hope tomorrow's is better. Write what you have today, and let it ferment into…

— Nicholas May

I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a…

— Claire Danes

“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we…

— Pam Brown

“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.…

— Jaron Lanier

I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer…

— Arbaaz Khan

“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s…

— Wayne Gladstone

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…

— David Quammen

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to…

— Theodora Goss

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of…

— Willa Cather

Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I…

— Lauren Ridloff

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

— Samuel Butler

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

— John Green

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

“I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.”

— Diego Ramos

Just a writer with a pen, writing about my life of sin. Shit, I don't even know where to begin..

— Raghib Clitso

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

“Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed... Write like a motherfucker.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

— Tony Hillerman

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

— David Hare

Yes, I write a lot of my own stuff. I love to write, it allows you to be real and show yourself.

— Ray J

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

— Colum McCann

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

— Phoebe Bridgers