Writer Quotes · Page 596

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

— Kathy Reichs

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

— Heather Armstrong

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

— Adam Rapp

“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!”

— Avijeet Das

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

— Patrick Marber

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

— Eleanor Catton

Were writing, yes, but really slow ... We mainly get together and end up hanging out, and half the time nothing gets…

— Isaac Brock

Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

— Abi Morgan

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

“The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. “What do you have in…

— Kailin Gow

“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.”

— Paul Collins

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

— Wayne Dyer

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end…

— Richard Dooling

The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing.…

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“She read a great deal - there was really nothing for her to do when I was gone but read and sew…

— Anonymous

“desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful:…

— Melanie Benjamin

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away,…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big…

— Charlie Worsham

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the…

— Robert Silverberg

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his…

— Jarod Kintz

When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school…

— Steven Knight

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

— Jill McCorkle

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

— Michael Connelly

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

— Carrie Coon

“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's my mouth I say what I want too, and it's my wall I can write anything I feel like to write

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

— Erik Larson

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

“The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).”

— Georges St-Pierre

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

— Sylvia Day

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

— John Hickenlooper

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

“I’ve never written for kids… I’m just trying to tap into the kid in myself & just go with my taste.”

— Andrew Stanton

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

— Sophie Calle

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

— David Malouf

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I can’t and won’t write without hope. I’d rather never write again.”

— Melina Marchetta