Writer Quotes · Page 151

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

— Emily V. Gordon

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

— Brad Parscale

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

— V. S. Naipaul

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

“Writing a novel is a trek.”

— Erin Summerill

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

— Patricia Hampl

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

— Helen Simonson

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

— Norman Wisdom

Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

— Tamora Pierce

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

— Hilary Mantel

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

— Sophie Thompson

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

— Julie Newmar

“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.”

— Stephen King

“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.”

— Andrew Piper

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the…

— William Sansom

“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will…

— Philippa Gregory

“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for…

— Kristen Ashley

“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley”

— Nicholas Murray

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story…

— Philip Roth

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If…

— Harlan Coben

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half…

— Natalie Goldberg

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is…

— Alan Bennett

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the…

— Betty Smith

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final…

— Brit Marling

“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get…

— Avijeet Das

If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with…

— Ruth Glick

Write something good that the people like.

— Julie Plec

“A writer is someone who has no choice”

— Andrew Updegrove

“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”

— Rorke Denver

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

— Madelaine Petsch

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

“how do you read the books”

— Coco Simon

“Writers build emotional roller coasters.”

— Anonymous