Writer Quotes · Page 236

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

— Peter Coyote

If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.

— Jessica St. Clair

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

— Tina Fey

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

— Claire Tomalin

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

— William Zinsser

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

— Liza Soberano

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

— Tony Gonzalez

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

— Mordicai Gerstein

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and…

— Teju Cole

“(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).”

— Philip Roth

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…

— Tobias Wolff

The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so…

— Sam Jaeger

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of…

— Scott Turow

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

— P. D. James

I just love telling stories, whether that be in a song or movie, that's really something that really excites me.

— Olivia Rodrigo

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys…

— Douglas Coupland

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a…

— Joshua Ferris

“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't…

— Italo Calvino

“-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels.…

— William Gaddis

The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to…

— Ronald Frame

“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the…

— Ron Dakron

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my…

— Nicola Griffith

“I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the…

— Nick Hornby

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But…

— Sarah Jio

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

— Neil Gaiman

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

— George Steiner

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

— Dave Sim

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

— Maxim Gorky

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.”

— Melody Lee

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

— Anne Rice

“Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.”

— Atticus

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

— Spider Robinson

“The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.”

— Lawrence Block

“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.”

— My Self

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

— Theophile Gautier

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

— John Flanagan