Writer Quotes · Page 149

I've never had writer's block.

— David Byrne

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

— Robert Newton Peck

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

— Jeff Bridges

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

— Anonymous

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

— David Mamet

“Unread books are like unopened doors.”

— Thomas F. Shubnell

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

— Isabel Allende

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

— P. L. Travers

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

“The one, who write is more matured than the one, who read.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”

— Anonymous

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new…

— Daniel Woodrell

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of…

— Dan Chaon

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is…

— Michael Connelly

Oddly, the anti-heroes of both 'The Chill' and veteran comics writer Peter Milligan's 'The Bronx Kill' share a first name, though their…

— Sarah Weinman

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

“His intense devotion to reviewing contributed greatly to the expansion of his own research library. “A nice side-benefit is that the copies…

— Hammann Konrad

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'…

— Frank Lampard

“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

— Nick Lake

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them…

— Anonymous

“i loved the freedom writers diary and even though i only read it because my teacher made us i loved the book.…

— Erin Gruwell

“Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and…

— David Morrell

“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for…

— Betsy Hearne

there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from…

— J. E. Buckrose

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,…

— Wally Lamb

“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the…

— China Miéville

“We are the leading telugu online bookstore and telugu online bookshops in Hyderabad. We have great author books and Telugu Novels online.…

— Vividhabooks

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Keep on writing and chgungig away!

— Nephi

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

A library is a hospital for the mind.

— Random House

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

— Victor Hugo

I collect books - a lot of books.

— Kate Spade

I really wanted to be a writer.

— Nancy Meyers

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

— Sherman Alexie