Writer Quotes · Page 640

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

— Jami Attenberg

Sometimes when I do stand-up the night before and I'm in a writing room the next day, I'm sharper.

— Robby Hoffman

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

— Stephen King

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

— Judy Blume

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

— William Faulkner

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

— Anne Rice

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

— Anderson Cooper

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

— Tom Robinson

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

— Liza Campbell

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the…

— Meg Wolitzer

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is]…

— Psalms 45 1

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in…

— Chad Kroeger

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for…

— Anonymous

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in…

— Paul Rudnick

“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I…

— Bonnie Greer

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within…

— Bentley Little

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up…

— Monica Hesse

“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't…

— Jay Asher

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would…

— Barbara Tuchman

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

— Chinua Achebe

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

— Tracy Kidder

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

— Nicholas Sparks

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“When you read a book, its like a viewing in your head.”

— Travion Rucker

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

— Willis Regier

I get to office early at about 8 A.M., and I'm back home by 6 to write.

— Ravi Subramanian

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

— Jayne Ann Krentz

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

— Clive Cussler

“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder