Writer Quotes · Page 105

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

— Gloria Estefan

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

— Carol Ann Duffy

I buy thousands of books a year.

— Dave Pelzer

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

— Guy Kawasaki

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

— Anonymous

The book you don't read can't help

— Jim Rohn

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

— N. K. Jemisin

It was always my dream to write for a living.

— Karin Slaughter

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

— Chris Colfer

“Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.”

— Roberto Bolaño

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

— Martin McDonagh

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

— Sebastian Faulks

“a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.”

— Kelly Favor

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

— Barack Obama

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

— Henry James

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I…

— Donald Ray Pollock

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even…

— Sarah Dessen

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read…

— Cynthia Kadohata

“It is true that getting into writing as a career can sometimes feel like you are trying to throw ten coins up…

— Jan Doncom

“And of course, if you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don’t want to publish it, I’d love…

— John Green

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but…

— Roxane Gay

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

— Tim Winton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly…

— Sōseki Natsume

Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,…

— Natalie Goldberg

“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very…

— John Green

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical…

— Quentin Tarantino

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't…

— Jay Asher

“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What…

— Kamal Ravikant

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;…

— Madame de Stael

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

— Toni Cade Bambara

For me, reading is reading.

— Tom Peters

All books are either dreams or swords.

— Amy Lowell

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

— Peter Mayle

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

— Ansel Adams

“Write freely and with feeling.”

— Dee Lopez

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

— Plato

I get a great high from writing.

— Walter Hill