Writer Quotes · Page 603

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

— Sara Shepard

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

— Diana Wynne Jones

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

— Cassandra Clare

“No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page”

— Susan Fletcher

I enjoy writing about what I and my fiance, Debina Bonnerjee, are up to in my blog.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows…

— Kevin Maney

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and…

— Nick Blaemire

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed…

— Andrea Bocelli

“But i would love to write something, maybe a book. I want to travel to a small town someday - one with…

— Lang Leav

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on…

— Antonin Artaud

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

— Neil Gaiman

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so…

— David Sedaris

“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or…

— Tom McCarthy

“He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables…

— Randy Alcorn

“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend…

— Mark O'Brien

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something…

— Italo Calvino

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books;…

— Shirley Jackson

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and…

— Eve Bunting

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

— Julia Alvarez

“There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands”

— Emily Dickinson

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

— Paulo Coelho

There are so many amazing parts to life, so many amazing things to write about.

— Jason Derulo

“All lives are interesting.One of the tasks of fiction, is to prove it.”

— A.D. Miller

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

— Washington Irving

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

— Robin Gibb

“ I do write. I hope I do, to do and to always do. ”

— Bela Anĝelo

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

— Jack Kerouac

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.

— Kali Uchis

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

— Omar Sharif

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

— Gillian Cross

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy