Writer Quotes · Page 604

I go into a book store and start having heart palpitations. I get very excited.

— Katie Melua

“Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands”

— Charlotte

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

— Mark Twain

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

— Marv Wolfman

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

“it didn’t really matter what that book was about. It was what it meant that was more important.”

— Markus Zusak

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to…

— Philip Pullman

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

— Chris Abani

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin…

— Vita Sackville-West

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard…

— Ernest Hemingway

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list…

— Jami Attenberg

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because,…

— Philip Reeve

You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to…

— Jimmy Carter

“I like books cause they don't care if your knickers match your bra If you've washed your hair. I like books cause…

— Stephanie Butland

“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own…

— Sylvia Plath

I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not…

— Elif Batuman

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I…

— Louis L'Amour

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right…

— Margaret Atwood

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award.…

— Sandra Cisneros

The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered…

— Harlan Ellison

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

— Warren Buffett

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

— Kevin Smith

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

— Ray Bradbury

“Childhood fantasy: Living in a library. -- Bethany B.”

— SMITH Magazine

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.”

— Julian Barnes

“It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.”

— S.M. Blooding

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

— Lidija Dimkovska

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

— Sean Wilentz

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

“I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.”

— Alison Sinclair