Writer Quotes · Page 566

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

— Daniel Woodrell

“I want to be the leading man in a story about followers.”

— Jarod Kintz

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

— Lorrie Moore

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start…

— Josh Radnor

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished…

— Philip Pullman

“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I…

— Garon Whited

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I…

— R. L. Stine

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can…

— Raymond Carver

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of…

— E. B. White

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

— Rian Johnson

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention…

— Chip Kidd

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,…

— H. L. Mencken

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children…

— Mini Grey

I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we…

— Brad Warner

“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old…

— Laini Taylor

“I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain…

— Alberto Manguel

“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my…

— Anonymous

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer…

— Gene Wolfe

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

— Richard Flanagan

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

— Philip Roth

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

— Paula Danziger

“...and my books are like friends that I come back to at night." ~Cynthia Batten”

— Cynthia Batten

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

— Sharon Begley

When I was younger, I wondered if it was possible to be a good person and a writer.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

“The best thing about writing is that your imagination has no bounds.”

— Wayne Ellis

“Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“I slipped into art to escape life. I sneaked off into literature.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.”

— Arturo Barea

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Paul Theroux

“So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!”

— Avijeet Das

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

— Tom King