Writer Quotes · Page 555

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

— H. G. Wells

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

— Don DeLillo

I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.

— Mary Gauthier

“I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.”

— S. Evan Townsend

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

— Edward Gorey

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

— Robert South

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

— Steven Van Zandt

Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

— Mary Karr

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities…

— D'Angelo

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a…

— Nema Al-Araby

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's…

— Lauren Graham

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to…

— Per Petterson

“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten…

— Jarod Kintz

It's two A.M. To sleep or to write that is the question? Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write…

— Lloyd E. Scott

Our lives will only be just a book on the shelf... it's up to you to decide whether the pages get turned…

— Raina Spencer

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover…

— Ruth Glick

One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw…

— Dave Gibbons

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work…

— A.K. Wallace

“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money…

— M.V. Carey

Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and…

— Delphine de Vigan

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it…

— Anonymous

“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”

— Mercedes M. Yardley

A good book written for children can be read by adults

— Norton Juster

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

— Bibi Bourelly

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

— Rene Descartes

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

— Kate Morton

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

— Ralph Ellison

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

— William Zinsser

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

— Gavin Newsom

“Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...”

— Christy Hall

If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.

— Megan McDonald

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

— Wole Soyinka

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

— Alan Zweibel

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

— Julie Schumacher

I like going after good material, well-written material.

— Sam Underwood