Writer Quotes · Page 543

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

— Kobo Abe

Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

— Lucy Dacus

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

— Holly Johnson

“A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?”

— Elizabeth Adeniyi

“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.”

— Ksenia Anske

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

— William Zinsser

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

— David Harbour

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

— Sloane Crosley

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit…

— Johann Georg Hamann

Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.

— George Pelecanos

“Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to…

— Barbara Casey

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has…

— Spencer Tracy

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It…

— Al Silverman

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.…

— Tom Stoppard

In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers…

— Robert Whitlow

This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti…

— Jonis Agee

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,…

— Nick Hornby

“Grace had read that the Spenser children followed a strictly macrobiotic diet—or that ultimate manifestation of New York real estate porn, the…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a…

— Daniel Tammet

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

— Kinky Friedman

Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice.

— Camille Perri

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

— Angus Young

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

— Neal Brennan

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

— Lisa Stansfield

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

— Gustave Flaubert

“You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.”

— David Baldacci

“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”

— Anonymous

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

— Marcia Clark

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

— Mavis Gallant

“BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true . ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“For a moment, the library was as silent as…well, a library. Sam”

— Rick Riordan

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury