Writer Quotes · Page 629

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

— Louisa May Alcott

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

— Jenny Mollen

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

— Karthi

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

— Joseph Fiennes

“A good book, Marcus, is a book you are sorry to have finished.” The”

— Joël Dicker

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

— Lucy Hawking

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

— Rands

I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family…

— Bonnie McFarlane

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

— Nora Roberts

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For…

— George Saunders

“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be…

— Paul Marlowe

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the…

— Pattiann Rogers

“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.”

— Lydia Larue

“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ”

— John Cale

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are…

— Karl Kraus

“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early…

— William Boyd

“It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras…

— Tad Williams

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a…

— Brian Jacques

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off…

— Katherine Paterson

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and…

— Robert Cormier

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

— Bindi Irwin

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

— George Saunders

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

— Barbara Pym

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

— Jeanette Winterson

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.

— Italia Ricci

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

— George Ade

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.

— Michael Dirda

“ever seen for sale in one place. They stocked volumes on”

— Geoffrey Durham

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler