Writer Quotes · Page 632

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

— Cassandra King

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

— Dan Kennedy

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

— Alexandra Bracken

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation…

— Michel Houellebecq

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,…

— Charlotte Bronte

When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.

— Steven Berkoff

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it…

— Leo Kottke

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to…

— Georges Simenon

A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader.

— Ravi Subramanian

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of…

— Kate DiCamillo

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately…

— Italo Calvino

“Creation Here is an exercise that will assist you in your Deliberate Creating: Take three separate pieces of paper, and at the…

— Esther Hicks

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total…

— Nigel Kneale

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if…

— V. S. Naipaul

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a…

— Lauren Grodstein

The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and…

— Anonymous

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

— Maxwell Perkins

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

— Rebecca West

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

— Sabaa Tahir

“books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.”

— Self-Realization Fellowship

“The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers!”

— C.S. Dixon

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

— Marilynne Robinson

I told my how-I-got-discovered story. It's a great story. It's gold. I caught an attitude.

— Tony Danza

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

— Brander Matthews

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

“In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened.”

— Markus Zusak

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

— Martin Booth

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer