Writer Quotes · Page 568

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

— Ann Patchett

“Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.”

— Steven Herrick

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

— Vanna Bonta

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

— Walt Whitman

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

— Hilary Mantel

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

— James Thayer

Sometimes, to write something positive I need to be negative

— Shashank Rayal

“when you already get in to the book,you'll love that book”

— Nadien me

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it…

— Francis Fukuyama

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )”

— Michael Connelly

“I’m not saying that’s all I have floating around inside my brain, as a writer, there are so many possibilities waiting for…

— S.D. Neeve

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a…

— Neil Gaiman

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound…

— Elmore Leonard

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great…

— J. P. Donleavy

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need…

— Stephen McCauley

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious…

— Andrei Codrescu

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You…

— Garrison Keillor

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in…

— Harlan Coben

“From travelling booksellers and undercover bookshops, to pop-up stalls and community hubs, walking into a good bookshop is like walking into another…

— Jen Campbell

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death…

— Wilbur Smith

“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about…

— Paulette Mahurin

I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to…

— Thighpaulsandra

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to…

— Morris Gleitzman

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

— Richard Steele

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

— Christopher Hitchens

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

— Michael Korda

“If you think a lot, write a book, Because a gravestone does not have much space.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

— Honore de Balzac

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

— John Waters

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”

— Django Wexler

“Find room in your heart, and space on your bookshelf, for new authors.”

— Richard Abbott-Brailey

My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

— Johannes Brahms

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

— Hosea Ballou

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

— Peter James

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

— Haruki Murakami

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

— Stephen Karam

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

— Richard Flanagan