Writer Quotes · Page 231

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I write, I write, I always write.

— Tom Araya

“But the book! The siren song of the book!”

— Ellen Douglas

A library is thought in cold storage.

— Anonymous

For each book, the time is also broken up.

— George Stephen

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

— Hosea Ballou

A sense of place is very important in writing.

— William Lashner

“My books were my friends.”

— Abbi Glines

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

— Carl Hiaasen

“Never chew off the hand you write with, you might survive and have to sign autographs.”

— Jarod Kintz

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker

“When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor.”

— Albert Camus

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

— Julia Alvarez

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has…

— Mary H.K. Choi

Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if…

— Rachel Renée Russell

“Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with…

— Jonathan Hull

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and…

— Ally Condie

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

— Martin McDonagh

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I…

— Howard Jacobson

Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks…

— Gustave Flaubert

For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After…

— Sabaa Tahir

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays…

— Andrew Davies

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing…

— Gunter Grass

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly…

— Ron Franscell

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?

— Cassandra Clare

You're a writer. Make it up.

— David Benioff

I am a social realist writer.

— Jed Mercurio

A library is a growing organism.

— S. R. Ranganathan

“Literature is disputed territory.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Writers build emotional roller coasters.”

— Anonymous

“how do you read the books”

— Coco Simon

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

— Rorke Denver