Writer Quotes · Page 93

“Its not an idea unless you write it down”

— Ivan Sutherland

Even the best writer has to erase

— Spanish Proverb

“A writing stream is my tide of reason.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

— Carl Hiaasen

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

— Katherine Mansfield

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

— Katrina Kenison

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

— Dave Sim

“Oh to be home reading a book.”

— Janelle Mowery

“I began writing about power because I had so little.”

— Octavia E. Butler

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

— James Van Allen

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

— Kate Atkinson

“Some men are born to be good some born to be bad As for me I only came with just a pen…

— Carlos Salinas

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my…

— Ben Marcus

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

— Anonymous

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more…

— S.I. Hayakawa

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on…

— Marilyn Hacker

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form…

— Rachel Cusk

“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's…

— Dean Koontz

I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there…

— Lisa Lutz

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…

— William Zinsser

“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“PUBLISH YOUR BOOK TODAY The following is a direct quote from Amazon, and, if you are a real writer, it is one…

— Terry Kennedy

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea…

— Edward P. Morgan

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That…

— Cate Marvin

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have…

— Jose Saramago

“I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.”

— A. Rosa

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

— Luanne Rice

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

— Isaac Asimov

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

— Besa Kosova

A room without book is like a body without soul

— Hasina Jalili

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

— Russell T Davies

Time slows down in libraries in a good way.

— Hilary Farr