Writer Quotes · Page 626

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

— Jincy Willett

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

— George Orwell

“Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...”

— John Geddes

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

— Jo Walton

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Even the most productive writers are expert dwadlers.”

— Anonymous

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm the corner street storytelling guy. I'm the guy in the garage that the neighbors come over to talk to and I…

— Jim Breuer

“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to…

— Skyla Madi

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff.…

— Josh Lieb

“After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day. Allow yourself to…

— Uma Nnenna

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for,…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

— Jim Lee

I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and…

— Lauren Groff

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed.…

— Alice Walker

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has…

— Gao Xingjian

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a…

— Raymond Chandler

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be…

— Cynthia Ozick

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on…

— Anonymous

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

“I am a bestselling author”, rather than “I will write a book next year.” Second,”

— James Thompson

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Maya Angelou

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

— robert m drake

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

— Robert Stone

“Don't Write What You Know; Write What You Care About -- Passionately!!”

— Carol Hightshoe

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

— Raymond Chandler

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

— Sylvia Plath

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

— Edward Abbey

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

— George Pelecanos

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

— John Grigg

“make this ebook? Many people are interested in having dōTERRA in their home but they are unsure”

— Jess Weagle