Writer Quotes · Page 565

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

— Lawrence Kasdan

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

— Colm Toibin

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

— Thornton Wilder

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

— Francois Mitterrand

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

— Hugh Dancy

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

— Terry Brooks

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

“I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly…

— julia bell

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to…

— Signe Baumane

“Indies are doing well because of their willingness to experiment, their willingness to share data and lessons with other writers, and their…

— Sean Platt

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an…

— Laila Lalami

It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone…

— Jeff Giles

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me…

— John le Carre

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

— Erin McKeown

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe…

— Rachel Kushner

“I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each…

— Debbie Macomber

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to…

— Hilary Mantel

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any…

— Gillian Flynn

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which…

— Dan Brown

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is…

— Donald Miller

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just,…

— Moneybagg Yo

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine,…

— Alexina Benavidez

“I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.”

— John Irving

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

— Helen Dunmore

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.”

— Matt

“...in search of my creative muse while writing a novel.”

— Atlas Brown

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

— Anonymous

“I have written - often several times - every word I have ever published.”

— Vladimir Nabok

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

— Witold Gombrowicz

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.”

— Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

— Flea

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

— Indro Montanelli

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

— James Patterson

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

— Ewan McGregor

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das