Writer Quotes · Page 570

Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesnt mean its the end of the book.

— Anonymous

“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Writing is a method for storing information through material signs.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

— Guy Johnson

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

— Judith Krantz

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff

“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear Are the most choice companions we have here.”

— William Mather

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

— Mason Cooley

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,…

— Cassandra Clare

“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels…

— Garth Greenwell

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate…

— Sinclair Lewis

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at…

— Calvin Trillin

I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you…

— Orson Bean

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing…

— Mike Greenberg

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that…

— Cornelia Funke

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it…

— Dirk Benedict

“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red…

— Jean Webster

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads…

— John Green

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor…

— James Thurber

“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the…

— Julie Tetel Andresen

I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their…

— Steve Leveen

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.…

— Jaimy Gordon

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of…

— Dionne Brand

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

— George R. R. Martin

“A day in which you write something is a day well-spent.”

— Anastasia Marie

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

— Mason Cooley

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

— George MacDonald

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

— Lisa Gardner

“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.”

— Marcel Proust

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

— Robert B. Parker

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

— Kevin Spacey

Classic book is a book which people praise, but do not read.

— Abhishek Tiwari

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

— William Safire

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

— Maren Morris