Writer Quotes · Page 120

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

— Dick Cavett

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

— C. J. Cherryh

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

— Jane Smiley

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I know not how to abstain from reading.

— Samuel Pepys

Part of my therapy is to write.

— LeAnn Rimes

“Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.”

— Damien Echols

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

— Evan Hunter

“I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.”

— Gina Sheridan

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”

— Gareth Huw Davies

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Throw down your books, you have nothing to lose except your grades.

— Movie

“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

— Julian Barnes

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

— R. L. Stine

“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or…

— Kathryn Albright

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both…

— George Saunders

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms…

— Leon Uris

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit…

— Harlan Coben

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was…

— David Friedman

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with…

— Isabel Allende

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they…

— Jane Brooke

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of…

— Alberto Manguel

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog…

— Paul Auster

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will…

— Janet Fitch

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and…

— Adam Gopnik

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,…

— Robert De Niro

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Writers: believe! And go do the work . . .

— Theodora Goss

The great writers touch life often.

— Anonymous

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins

“I am a Pen & I am born to Write.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

I really tend to write in retrospect.

— Randy Houser

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

— Alexander Pope

Good writing is everything.

— Corey Stoll

I just want to be a good storyteller.

— Sia