Writer Quotes · Page 729

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced…

— Robert Darnton

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his…

— Roald Dahl

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English.…

— Tania James

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion…

— Erin Morgenstern

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to…

— Joan Didion

Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in…

— Jeremy Limn

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

— John Cowper Powys

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that…

— Tara Westover

Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because…

— Rick Riordan

I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate…

— Jan Clausen

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and…

— Joshua Foer

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced,…

— Miriam Toews

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed…

— Alex Haley

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it…

— Anthony Doerr

“That’s why you should flip through the pages so that someday you’d be an ebook author. So doing you’d save a newer…

— S. A. David

“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want…

— David Foster Wallace

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong…

— Michael Loceff

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

— Bridgit Mendler

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

— Eric Hill

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written…

— Ernest Hemingway

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made…

— Maggie Stiefvater

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

— Anonymous

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once…

— August Wilson

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

— Kate DiCamillo

“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must…

— Alexander M. Zoltai

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he…

— Gabrielle Roy

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

— Candice Bergen

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to…

— Gail Simone

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

— Marjorie Scardino

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business…

— Jodi Picoult

A wise woman once told me "you shouldn't have written that song" I now believe her completely. I should've never put that…

— Danny Worsnop

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all…

— Shemar Moore

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like…

— Jess Walter

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

— Sharon Van Etten