Writer Quotes · Page 618

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

— Adam Young

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

— David Sedaris

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

— Ishmael Reed

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

Thanks for the pain. Because without it, I wouldn't been have been able to write the things I did.

— Kirsten Gilchrist

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with…

— Saib Tabrizi

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if…

— Hubert Selby Jr

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You…

— Cory Barlog

“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.”

— Gregory Maguire

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

— Dean Koontz

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the…

— Emma Donoghue

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel…

— Haruki Murakami

“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills…

— Jerry Stahl

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are…

— Stephen King

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want…

— Orhan Pamuk

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to…

— Charles Finch

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the…

— C. S. Lewis

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them…

— Charles de Lint

“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could…

— Lindsay Chamberlin

When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses…

— James Arthur Ray

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

— Ray Bradbury

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

— Tracy Chevalier

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

— Jane Cleland

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

— Flannery O'Connor

No Barstool writer has ever said or written one thing out of hate or anger. It's always to get a joke.

— Dave Portnoy

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

— Ziad Doueiri

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Learn to live. Live to write. Write to love. Love to learn.”

— Bonafide Rojas

“Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense”

— Jennifer Larmar

“Reading is a pathway to the mind. The destination is the soul." Clu Gallagher”

— Clu Gallagher

When the library book-drop overflows and volumes spill onto the wet grass, the books are over dew.

— Green Monk

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

— Andre Previn

“Books open the doors that others have closed on you.”

— Shannon Alder