Writer Quotes · Page 88

“Authors do not own books, readers do”

— John Green

Literature has become too psychological.

— Karan Mahajan

I never imagined I'd write a book.

— Simon Sinek

“Everything I Write is True, But So What?”

— Édouard Levé

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

— W. P. Kinsella

For me, just being published feels like success.

— Samantha Shannon

“You'll discover a whole world in reading books.”

— Kenneth E. Stuart

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

“Composing a letter is a way to combine solitude with good company.”

— Lord Byron

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

— Eudora Welty

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

— Barbara Mertz

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

— Stephen Sondheim

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

— Douglas Coupland

“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.”

— Kellie Elmore

“What a writer needs? A friend. A friend that’ll accompany beside solitude itself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just…

— Sharon Van Etten

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm…

— Janet Fitch

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong…

— Danny Carey

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,…

— Danielle Steel

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and…

— Francois Fenelon

“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe…

— Anne Rice

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars…

— Helen Garner

“The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in…

— Michel Houellebecq

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I…

— Paul Auster

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches…

— Rob Lowe

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some…

— Alex Garland

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…

— Neil Gaiman

When I receive a box of my books, my impulse is to hide rather than display them. It always makes me very…

— Katie Kitamura

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

— Ben Bradlee

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

— Ben Jonson

“I'm a writer, I write things.”

— Rashad Freeman

“Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;”

— Thomas S. Monson

I enjoy the process of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

We don't value books enough.

— Spencer Pratt

I am baffled by good writing.

— Paul Dano