Writer Quotes · Page 622

“You write about what you love and you write about things you’re trying to make sense of.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.”

— Toba Beta

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”

— Diane Setterfield

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

— Zoe Cassavetes

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

— Chinua Achebe

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

— Erica Jong

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a…

— Ben Richards

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and…

— Truman Capote

I've trained myself to write the first two or three hours I'm awake simply by doing it every day. If life stuff…

— Camille Perri

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest…

— Alan Ayckbourn

“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe…

— Rachel Hall

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

— Paul Auster

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking…

— Walter Kirn

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences…

— Phil Klay

The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something…

— Cheryl Strayed

We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's…

— Jackie French

“You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty—done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes.…

— Chila Woychik

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty…

— Wayne Flynt

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

— Samuel Johnson

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

“being able to work in a robe and slippers was one of the greatest perks of being a writer.”

— Wendy Wax

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

— Jack Vance

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

— George Gilfillan

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

— Steve Erickson

“And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!”

— John Galsworthy

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— Anonymous

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

— William Goldman

“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

— George MacDonald

“The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours.”

— Sylvia McNicoll

“When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!”

— Avijeet Das

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

— Andrew Sean Greer