Writer Quotes · Page 542

“When you are a writer, "Just be yourself" takes on a whole different, confusing meaning.”

— Jennivie Wirries

“this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.”

— Tom Robbins

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

— Sara Zarr

“First drafts don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be written.”

— Anonymous

“I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.”

— Sara Sheridan

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”

— Alberto Manguel

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”

— A.M. Hudson

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a…

— Charles Bukowski

I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start…

— Rebecca Serle

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end…

— Tom Glazer

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a…

— Seneca the Younger

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There…

— George Bernard Shaw

Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the…

— Stephenie Meyer

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

— Christian Bauman

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story…

— Walter Kirn

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution…

— Natalie Zemon Davis

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures...…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the…

— Adam Rapp

“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was…

— John Irving

“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's…

— Stacia Kane

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I…

— Mordecai Richler

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.…

— Mary Garden

“trying to outrun the novelist’s most insidious enemy, which is doubt.”

— Stephen King

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.”

— Ksenia Anske

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

— Steven Moffat

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

— Andre Maurois

“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.”

— Roxane Gay

“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.”

— Margaret Atwood

Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

— Irvine Welsh

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

— Don Winslow

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

— Lauren Conrad

“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.”

— Steve Smy

A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

— Anonymous

“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”

— Nora Roberts

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

— Tom Robbins

Don't have enough time to write all these things I'll put up.

— Anonymous