Writer Quotes · Page 556

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

— Richard Flanagan

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

— Anna Gunn

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

I don't think my husband has any plans to pen his memoirs. There are enough people doing that for him.

— Jaya Bachchan

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

— Kristin Hunter

“Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.”

— Christy Hall

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about…

— Jennifer v Clancy

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need…

— Emily Barton

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever…

— Lloyd Alexander

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,…

— James Patterson

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws…

— Philip Roth

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any…

— Shirley Jackson

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary…

— Anonymous

“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause…

— Kevin Emerson

I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop…

— James Ponsoldt

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.…

— George R. R. Martin

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't…

— Anne Lamott

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination…

— Robert McKee

I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and…

— Sarah Weinman

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

— Robert James Waller

“Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.”

— Nicola J. McDonagh

“Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.”

— Stuart Aken

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Once a good book opens, it won't close until the end.”

— Abby Buter

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

“My job is not to regulate your response to the truth - my job is to tell it.”

— Yaa Gyasi

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

— George Sand

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

— Philip K. Dick

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

— Sandra Brown

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from

— Paul Weller

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

— Michael Giacchino

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner