Writer Quotes · Page 605

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).

— Philip Larkin

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

— William Gibson

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

— Gillian Flynn

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

— Winston Graham

I ain't got the biggest breast-s-s, but I write all the best disses.

— Lady Sovereign

“Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!”

— K.D. Faerydae

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

— Justin Cartwright

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.”

— Ian McEwan

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me…

— Anthony Minghella

“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how…

— Carl Henegan

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but…

— Virginia Woolf

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is…

— Francois Mauriac

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all.…

— Ken Wilber

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

— Sigmund Freud

From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a…

— Karen DeCrow

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is…

— Kamala Harris

The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced…

— Steve Donoghue

“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles…

— Chuck Wendig

“Publishing a book is like giving birth. You labor over it and then produce what you think is the most beautiful thing…

— Jordan Silver

“People who collect books, and categorize them by Roy G. Biv instead of alphabetically, are displaying the fact that their books aren't…

— Jarod Kintz

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.

— Rachel Cohn

“I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever.”

— Dodie Smith

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

— Saul Bellow

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

— Ernest Hemingway

“Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Those who say they hate reading are those who haven't found the right book.”

— Ryan J. Alls

There are always few pages of life which you never wish to read again

— Nidhi Saini

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

— Ellen Glasgow

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

— John Updike

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Anonymous

“a true reader always had at least one bookcase filled with books, despite owning an e-reader.”

— Anonymous

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

— Joanna Trollope