Writer Quotes · Page 548

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

— Paul Theroux

“And no reason to talk about the books I read but I still do...”

— Morrissey

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

— Jim James

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

— Anne Enright

“Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...”

— Himmilicious

“Personally, I don't plan to retire from writing. My plan is to visit a body editor, have them slap on a hot…

— R. Rose

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try…

— Dana Spiotta

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're…

— George R. R. Martin

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.”

— Margaret Atwood

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out…

— Poppy Delevingne

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that…

— Orson Scott Card

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety…

— Nicholas Sparks

I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming…

— Roy Haynes

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a…

— Henry Miller

No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something…

— Nick Hornby

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as…

— Tanith Lee

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In…

— Leonard Bernstein

“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their…

— Edgardo H Pangilinan

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a…

— Neil Gaiman

"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and…

— Neil Gaiman

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

— Rick Atkinson

Writing something down that I'm struggling with makes it feel less scary or more manageable.

— Noah Kahan

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

— Letitia Wright

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

“I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.”

— Laini Giles

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

— Patti Smith

I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.

— Erika Christensen

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

— Paul Auster

“Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.”

— Paul Bowles

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

— Donna Jo Napoli

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

— Annie Barrows

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake