Writer Quotes · Page 153

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

— Linda Grant

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

— Paul Auster

I just have never got into reading.

— Kid Rock

Easy reading requires hard writing,

— Anthony Trollope

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

— John Green

“Writing is your soul on paper”

— Isabelle Crane

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

— Augusto Pinochet

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

— Leslie Fiedler

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

— Steven Tyler

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you”

— alisa hope wagner

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

— Arthur Ashe

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

— Gabrielle Zevin

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

— David E. Kelley

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood…

— Esi Edugyan

“What's this "rough life of a novelist" bullshit? You sound like an idiot. You're a writer. At least give yourself better lines.”

— Maki Murakami

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have…

— E. B. White

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what…

— Sharon Cameron

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've…

— Wright Morris

The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.…

— Ravi Subramanian

The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for…

— Anne Fortier

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is…

— Charlie Rowe

“The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It…

— Don Borchert

“It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is…

— Christopher Milne

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone…

— Sylvia Beach

“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about…

— PJ Harvey

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

— Kevin McCloud

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

— Dorothea Brande

You can't tell someone how to write their own book.

— Stefflon Don

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

I usually move to wherever I'm writing about.

— Robert Graysmith

Drink deeply from good books.

— John Wooden

“Thank you and happy reading!”

— Anonymous

“Inspire before you expire.”

— M.L. Shanahan