Writer Quotes · Page 806

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

— Tom Robinson

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

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

— Liza Campbell

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

“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to…

— Anne Lamott

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close…

— Patty Duke

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“if I wanted to be a better writer, I was the only person who could push myself to do it. It was…

— Ann Patchett

“I always gave her a book. An old hardback from the same section in the used bookstore where you'd find Hardy Boys…

— Peter Heller

Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people…

— Jasper Fforde

“To be honest, I love watching some of the old cartoons and new ones that are popular. It's another way to make…

— Simi Sunny

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If…

— Harlan Coben

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half…

— Natalie Goldberg

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…

— Joseph Conrad

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn…

— Avi Steinberg

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

— Lorrie Moore

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.…

— David Walliams

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of…

— Robert Penn Warren

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French

I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really…

— Kurt Vile

“Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends.…

— Emilie Poulsson

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite…

— P. L. Travers

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it…

— Lev Grossman

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common…

— Gillian Alexy

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

— Charles Bock

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I…

— Annie Dillard

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel…

— Paul G. Tremblay

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like…

— Orhan Pamuk

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost…

— Rick Riordan

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more…

— Flannery O'Connor

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the…

— Mohammed Dib

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

— Lee Gutkind

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

— Joyce Maynard