Writer Quotes · Page 145

“Whatever I feel, I can't act on it”

— Jennifer Pierre

“The reader is the final arbiter.”

— Sam Reaves

“If there is progress then there is a novel.”

— William Carlos Williams

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

— Joseph Stalin

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

— Jane Smiley

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

— C. J. Cherryh

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

— Dick Cavett

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

— Andrew Bird

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

— Alber Elbaz

“A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.”

— Liza D. Osae-Kwapong

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

— Roland Barthes

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

“I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only…

— Greg Egan

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

— Heather Armstrong

If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book…

— Brian Regan

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

— Ted Nelson

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I…

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do…

— Josh Lieb

I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me,…

— Troye Sivan

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in…

— Henry Seidel Canby

I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times,…

— Sarah Kay

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to…

— Neil Gaiman

My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory…

— Earl of Chesterfield

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under…

— E. B. White

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they…

— Julia Quinn

I've been dreaming about having a press forever, like the '90s. I've always known so many great writers who aren't as connected…

— Michelle Tea

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

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

— Theodora Goss

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

— Damien Echols

“I am a Pen & I am born to Write.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

The great writers touch life often.

— Anonymous

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins