Writer Quotes · Page 77

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I always have to be writing.

— Taylor Swift

Read at whim! Read at whim!

— Randall Jarrell

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Time is a river, and books are boats.

— Dan Brown

I read all the Krakauer books.

— Tommy Caldwell

Literature precedes genre.

— Rick Moody

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

— Hal Sparks

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

— Richard Flanagan

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

— Anna Gunn

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

— Alan Zweibel

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

— Julie Schumacher

I like going after good material, well-written material.

— Sam Underwood

“Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...”

— Christy Hall

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with…

— Mindy Kaling

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I…

— George Steiner

“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the…

— Walter Isaacson

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the…

— Zadie Smith

“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a…

— Italo Calvino

“Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.”

— Jarod Kintz

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it…

— William Butler Yeats

“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons…

— Michael Cunningham

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.…

— T.C. Boyle

“At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day…

— G.R. Reader

I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of,…

— Matt Bomer

“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from…

— Joanna Russ

“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you…

— Elaine Orr

“I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more…

— Neil Gaiman

I just want to get on and tell stories.

— Irvine Welsh

“necromancy was essentially a bookish art,”

— Michael D. Bailey

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”

— Nathan Filer

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

— Mac Davis

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

— Darryl F. Zanuck

Novel writing wrecks homes.

— C. S. Forester

I read everything and anything. I love books.

— Gail Porter