Writer Quotes · Page 610

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. (Face palm!)”

— George W. Bush

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

— Joe Bonamassa

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

— Hannah More

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

— David O. Selznick

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

— Barack Obama

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

— Isabel Allende

There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

— Mindy Kaling

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

— John Maus

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

— James Boswell

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another…

— Ronald Isley

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have…

— John Muir

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.”

— Ken Andersen

“The world is condensing, attention spans narrowing to tiny screens, and there are people who are wittier and smarter, who know how…

— Lauren Beukes

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…

— Virginia Woolf

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost…

— May Sarton

Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the…

— Susan Orlean

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed…

— Homer Hickam

“I always get muscle aches in my eyes after a few hours of reading," she said. "Doesn't matter what. The closeness does…

— Ryan Knighton

“Somxtimxs I gxt to thinking that what I do doxsn't mattxr. But whxn I start thinking that way, I rxmxmbxr my old…

— Tom Connellan

“You’ve got to write every day as if you were clocking in for a job. Or if not every day, then damn…

— Benjamin Percy

“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way…

— Kurt Vonnegut jr

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

— Wolf Blitzer

“First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow”

— Kane X. Faucher

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

— Paul S. Kemp

“Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.”

— Paul Auster

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

— Matthew Pearl

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

— Truman Capote

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

“Old bookworms never die, they just go to be with their favorite fictional characters.”

— Random

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

— Ben Lerner

“If one undertakes to read everything, one reads nothing.”

— Anonymous

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris