Writer Quotes · Page 546

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

— Eudora Welty

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

— Roland Barthes

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.”

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

— Nicole Kidman

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

— Amish Tripathi

I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

— Jewel

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the…

— Richard Dawkins

When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty…

— William Gurstelle

“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for…

— John Steinbeck

“Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam”

— Stephanie Skeem

I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own…

— Danielle Dutton

Sometimes I'll be writing something, and I say to myself, 'Okay, that's definitely DTB,' or, 'It's definitely Strapping.'

— Devin Townsend

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always…

— Eleanor Catton

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of…

— Anne Lamott

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,…

— Mavis Gallant

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the…

— Neil Gaiman

“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink…

— Janet Frame

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.…

— Philip Roth

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is…

— Ernesto Sabato

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,…

— Lady Gaga

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

— Sharon Cameron

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

— Fran Lebowitz

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

— Gail Godwin

“Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel”

— Marie Corelli

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

— Sholem Asch

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

— T. S. Eliot

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

— Adriana Trigiani

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

— Barbara Mertz

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

“Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.”

— H.B. Bolton