Writer Quotes · Page 71

“You read a book all the way through? Why?”

— Bart Simpson

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

— Charles Bukowski

“I was born with a reading list that never ends.”

— Maud Casey

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

“Books mean more than people to me anyway.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Fiction - The poor persons travel agency.”

— L.Douglas Muncy

books are like confort food without the calories

— Elizabeth Berg

“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.”

— M. Kirin

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

“Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.”

— Alexandra Potter

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

— John Mica

“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.”

— Benjamin Percy

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

— Jilly Cooper

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

— Tony Blankley

“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.”

— Christopher Bram

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

— Adam Grant

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

— Bill Gates

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like…

— Thom Yorke

“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.”

— Shauna Niequist

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve…

— Donald Margulies

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk,…

— Julie Gregory

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

— Edward Hirsch

“It would be rather lovely, [commenting on having an agent] becuase then I would feel better about this whole mess. I think…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have…

— Rachel Kushner

Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write…

— Judith Viorst

“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she…

— Lucy Dillon

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger…

— Jan Brett

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

— Susan Sontag

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

— Patti Smith

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

“What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer ”

— Philip Larkin

I will read anything rather than work.

— Jean Kerr

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner