Writer Quotes · Page 613

“Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.”

— Michael Krüger

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

Mitch Steinman is my all time favourite power ballad writer.

— Peaches

“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.”

— Jane Austen

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.

— Tara Moss

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”

— Colum McCann

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument…

— Saul Williams

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending…

— Tituss Burgess

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take…

— J.E. Negrete

“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel…

— Colleen Hoover

Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to…

— Rick Riordan

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

“INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in…

— Eri Nelson

What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do…

— Anna Quindlen

I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean…

— Carolyn See

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or…

— Bienvenido Lumbera

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was…

— Sarah Dessen

Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in…

— Sara Gran

I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would…

— William Moseley

“If it weren't for the friends I have in books, I'd have no friends at all.”

— P.A. Hopkins

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

— Libba Bray

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

— Laura Bush

“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

— Ellen Gilchrist

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

— James Ellroy

“Take and remember the best part of a book like the best part of life!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

— Lisa Unger

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

— Allen W. Wood

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren