Writer Quotes · Page 242

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

— Mary Karr

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

“(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.”

— Jincy Willett

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

— Francis Keppel

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between…

— Alice Hoffman

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always…

— Ben Elton

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four…

— Stephenie Meyer

“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way…

— Julian Barnes

I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or…

— Melissa Febos

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make…

— Suyog Ketkar

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

— Jane Austen

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the…

— Anne Enright

“Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children’s books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic.…

— Abbie Schiller

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and…

— Willa Cather

“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone…

— Sara Pascoe

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be…

— Chespirito

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move…

— Anders Holm

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when…

— Ciaran Carson

“The fastest way to write is to pretend you have all the time in the world.”

— Philip Gerard

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

— Richard Hughes

“Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.”

— Cheryl Koevoet

“I write, therefore i am, and therefore do not need other's writing!”

— Rebecca Jane

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

— Anonymous

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

“There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.”

— Mary Lou Kirwin

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

— Elizabeth George

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

— David Schwimmer

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

— Isabel Allende

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

— Mike Noonan

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

— Tracy Kidder

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

— Boy George

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

— John Geddes