Writer Quotes · Page 562

“Before bed I do a bit of light reading. I’m reading a 50-pound book on midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

— Matt Mullenweg

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

— Christina Baldwin

skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author.

— Derek Landy

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

— Ed Westwick

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

— V. S. Naipaul

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they…

— David Gelernter

I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind…

— Maurice Sendak

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only…

— E. L. Doctorow

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

— John Irving

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing…

— Louis L'Amour

When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the…

— John Dos Passos

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards…

— Alasdair Gray

“Surrounded by the familiar covers of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, I felt like this was where all lost…

— V.J. Campilan

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role…

— John K. Samson

I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to…

— Sandra Cisneros

“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother,…

— Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must…

— Ian Rankin

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

— Thomas Keller

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

— Max Lucado

“Writing 1000 words is only daunting if you haven't written them. When you're done, it's pie.”

— Selena Blake

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

— Miguel de Icaza

“Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.”

— Toby Forward

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

— Tom Paulin

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them”

— Justyn Simon

“The grace of writing is upon me. I love writing. I write daily.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.”

— Shana Chartier

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

— Anatole France

“Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there!”

— David McPhail

“Writing is a love & hate relationship. You'll love the job, you'll hate the work.”

— Anonymous