Writer Quotes · Page 197

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

— Janet Malcolm

“The library is a symbol of freedom.”

— Sara Sheridan

“You only fail if you stop writing.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Live to read, read to learn.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you live, the better writer you are.

— Meg Rosoff

I've never written a book before.

— Keith Emerson

Should have written it in a different format

— Crystal

You are either born a writer or you are not.

— Cormac McCarthy

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

— Toni Morrison

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

— Jonathan Franzen

“for me, reading is remembering. the simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all.”

— Cat Patrick

“Writer’s block is akin to a “vacancy” sign; if you wait long enough they will eventually fill.”

— Nanette L. Avery

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

— Sylvester Stallone

“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.”

— Nick Lake

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow

“good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.”

— Carole Matthews

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

— Raymond Carver

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be…

— Irvine Welsh

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of…

— John Darnielle

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I…

— Ken Follett

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven…

— R. L. Stine

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their…

— Bill Gates

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

— Jill Davis

“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.”

— Carol Morgan

In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"…

— Stephen Greenblatt

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.…

— Lee Gutkind

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

— Neil Gaiman

“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.…

— Ray Bradbury

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,…

— Edna Ferber

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters…

— Karen Robards

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;…

— Yiyun Li

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“You can never have enough books,”

— Christina L. Farley

“Writers are professional eavesdroppers.”

— Tolulope Popoola

When revelation comes write it down.

— Richard G. Scott

I don't believe in writer's block.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”

— Amadou Hampâté Bâ

“A writer is the conscience of the world.”

— Doris Lessing

“Read it. Know it. Use it.”

— Karina Huang