Writer Quotes · Page 225

I like to keep my story strait…just like my brides…

— Wtfpssss

“Whatever I feel, I can't act on it”

— Jennifer Pierre

“The reader is the final arbiter.”

— Sam Reaves

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

— Joseph Stalin

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

— William Carlos Williams

“Nothing is written until you write it!”

— Frank Ainslie

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

— John Ruskin

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

— Jacques Barzun

“But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

— Ali Smith

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

— John Updike

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

— Scott Westerfeld

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

— Gloria Steinem

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

— Donovan

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

“But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through,’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down…

— Sarra Manning

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be…

— James Welch

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

— Rebecca Stead

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed…

— Patrick deWitt

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured…

— Janet Fitch

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

— Virginia Woolf

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…

— William Zinsser

“PUBLISH YOUR BOOK TODAY The following is a direct quote from Amazon, and, if you are a real writer, it is one…

— Terry Kennedy

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea…

— Edward P. Morgan

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature…

— Vladimir Putin

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come…

— Cornel West

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

— Jason Isbell

I'm more of an organic writer.

— Skip Marley

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

— Naomi Wolf

“Books fall open, you fall in”

— David McCord

We become the books we read.

— Matthew Kelly

“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”

— Dani J Caile

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

“When you love a book it loves you back.”

— Bret Easton Ellis