Writer Quotes · Page 841

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide…

— Vanna Bonta

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful…

— Cary Fukunaga

“Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with…

— Shawn L. Bird

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.…

— Orson Scott Card

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

— Karl Marx

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is…

— Robert Olen Butler

“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize…

— Javier A. Robayo

“A lot of help she was. Weren't witches supposed to have power? If you asked me Noel seemed more like a glorified…

— Tara A. Fuller

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and…

— Vivian Gornick

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever…

— Walter Russell

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing…

— William Saroyan

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write…

— Marge Piercy

There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts…

— Joan Didion

“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the…

— John Freeman

“A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat,…

— J.K. Rowling

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

— Allison Silverman

“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even…

— David Foster Wallace

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it…

— Truman Capote

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.…

— Mary Mouser

“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of…

— John Bright

“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the…

— Jennifer Probst

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you…

— Don Winslow

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.…

— Jon Stewart

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

— Hannah More

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

— Samuel Barber

I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice,…

— Marjorie Liu

A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.

— Jack Monroe

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken…

— Tracy Chevalier

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to…

— Jo Nesbo

We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books.

— Michael Rosen

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally…

— Pat Conroy

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then…

— Ravi Subramanian

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at…

— Alberto Manguel

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so…

— Karin Tidbeck

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed…

— Ernest Hemingway