Writer Quotes · Page 61

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

— Jared Kushner

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

— Umberto Eco

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

— Jason Ellis

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

— Lisa Jewell

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

“When I write I face my demons, and defeat them.”

— Jackie G. Mills

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

— Eugene Schwartz

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

— Julia Quinn

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

— Ashanti

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

— Peter Orner

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

— Brian McKnight

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

— Anonymous

If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.

— Robin Lopez

“Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it…

— Joanne McDonnell

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

— Ray Bradbury

“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by…

— Amal Saleh

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not…

— Philip Pullman

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does…

— Terry McMillan

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little…

— Sue Grafton

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're…

— Irvine Welsh

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

— John Jakes

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was…

— David Markson

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is…

— Khaled Hosseini

“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who…

— Priscilla Stuckey

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.…

— Michael Connelly

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note…

— Dax Shepard

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the…

— Walter Mosley

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write…

— Melissa Febos

Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Reality never has to make sense. Fiction does.”

— Paulina Mielech

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

— Hope Davis

The world itself is already a great textbook.

— Ma Yansong

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

— Max Landis

I would never read a book.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

— Holbrook Jackson

“Defeat winter, read a book.”

— Bibiana Krall

Of all things, I liked books best.

— Nikola Tesla