Writer Quotes · Page 580

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

— Cornelia Funke

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

— Tim Minchin

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

When writing the story of your life, dont let anyone else hold the pen.

— Anonymous

“I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.”

— Peg Lynch

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

— Janet Burroway

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and…

— Rick Perlstein

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and…

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and…

— Sally O'Reilly

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London,…

— Garrett Hedlund

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but…

— James Patterson

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,…

— Leslie Fiedler

“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;”

— David Mitchell

Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit…

— Teju Cole

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new…

— Tom Peters

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that,…

— Alberto Manguel

What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked…

— Catherine Brady

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…

— Isaac Asimov

My nervous breakdown last season, when I was bemoaning the fact that I'll never have time to read all the great books…

— Jon Cryer

Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that…

— Linda Pastan

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

— Anonymous

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

— Mark Lawrence

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.”

— Noêl Coward

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

— Tory Lanez

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

— Frances Harper

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

— Lyle Lovett

I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

— Lesley Sharp

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

— Patricia A. McKillip

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing novels means being plural, being divided among your creatures and suffering with them.”

— Siri Hustvedt

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

— Neil Gaiman

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

— Letitia Wright

“There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.”

— Milton Lomask