Writer Quotes · Page 243

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

— Anonymous

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

— Ernest Hemingway

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

— Orlando Bloom

Don't be quick to jump to conclusion without write Subject.

— Alexander John Jr

Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.

— Warren Ellis

I just wanted to be part of telling a good story that shocks people.

— Tom Payne

“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.”

— Abigail Thomas

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

— Louis L'Amour

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to…

— Common

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think…

— Maria Edgeworth

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz…

— Michael Easton

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the…

— Michael Moore

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to…

— John Irving

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I…

— Charles Bukowski

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're…

— Patricio Pron

“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused…

— Durga Chew-Bose

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the…

— Michael Sims

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think…

— T.C. Boyle

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory…

— William Zinsser

“Books were always my friends Last more than fifty years Books gave me dreams Dreams resulted in missions Books helped me confidently…

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start…

— Jeff Bollow

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not…

— Erica Jong

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

— Michael Dirda

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

— Paulo Coelho

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

— Calvin Trillin

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

— Jane Alison

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

— Donald Barthelme

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

— Amy Poehler

“I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.”

— Rabih Alameddine

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

— Adriana Trigiani

“I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read.”

— self

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

— Gina Rodriguez

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

— Mark Twain

“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.”

— Steve Maraboli

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

— Jim Capaldi

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

— A. J. Liebling

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

— Joseph Epstein