Writer Quotes · Page 232

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

— Madelaine Petsch

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

— Salman Rushdie

“A writer is someone who has no choice”

— Andrew Updegrove

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

— Annie Baker

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

— Patricia Hampl

“Writing a novel is a trek.”

— Erin Summerill

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

— Helen Simonson

Write something good that the people like.

— Julie Plec

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

— Scott Westerfeld

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

— Harlan Coben

“Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart”

— Lisa Fantino

“The great thing about book burnings is, they still have to buy the books.”

— Anonymous

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

— Pico Iyer

“Books are where words live. I read to see who's home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great -…

— Kate Grenville

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it…

— Elmore Leonard

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and…

— Tim Perkins

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of…

— Willa Cather

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing…

— Max Brooks

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of…

— Muriel Spark

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full,…

— Connie Nielsen

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,…

— Carol Windley

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a…

— Kelly Rowland

What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the…

— Rebecca Mead

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and…

— Rebecca Solnit

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.…

— Jonathan Evison

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations…

— Richard Grossman

I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so…

— Gabe Polsky

“On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next…

— Margaret Atwood

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Fiction is life by design.”

— Mary Kittredge

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

— Zoya Akhtar

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Brad Parscale

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

— Emily V. Gordon

Without the library, you have no civilization.

— Ray Bradbury

“Why ride a cowboy when you can ride a librarian?”

— Alice Clayton