Writer Quotes · Page 594

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

— Walter Dean Myers

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

— Robert Vaughan

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

— Anonymous

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

— George Saunders

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

— Gregory David Roberts

“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda”

— Ernest Hemingway

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

— John Irving

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

— Victoria Laurie

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are…

— Henri Nouwen

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

— William Gaddis

“I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I…

— Lisa See

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed…

— Oliver Goldsmith

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the…

— Mary Steenburgen

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

— Sheila Heti

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,…

— John Locke

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to…

— Leo C Rosten

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on…

— Tavi Gevinson

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In…

— Alison Lurie

“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the…

— Anthony Mary Claret

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be…

— Eudora Welty

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,…

— Fannie Hurst

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

— Avi

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

— Katherine Paterson

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

— Celeste Ng

It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.

— Lauv

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“She had left a book at home that she was impatient to get back to.”

— Willa Cather

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

— Margaret Walker

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

— Michael Bierut

“Writing always came naturally to me. It was like speaking, but easier. Actually, a lot easier.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

— John Scalzi

“The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.”

— Santosh Kalwar