Writer Quotes · Page 244

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

— Mukul Dev

“Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

— Zadie Smith

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.

— Toni Jerrman

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,

— Michael Ondaatje

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

“It is amazing just how many books in the library have words written in them!?”

— Jon Hodge

“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

— Jodi Picoult

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that…

— Atwood H. Townsend

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

— Stephen Fry

“Living outside the Library was never safe. Flying sleighs could come out of nowhere and hit you, however careful you were.”

— Genevieve Cogman

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any…

— Helen Dunmore

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught,…

— Lisa Kleypas

“as if people read books then developed ideas, not wondering whether perhaps it is the other way around; people look for books…

— Anonymous

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

— Jeffrey Archer

“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical…

— Rebecca Makkai

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And…

— Noah Hawley

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand…

— Chris Bohjalian

A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;…

— Stephen King

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff…

— Ray Bradbury

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them…

— Isabel Allende

The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin…

— Benjamin Percy

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

— Conrad Hall

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

— Richard Marek

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

— Libba Bray

“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.”

— Charles Baxter

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

“But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse.”

— Richard Wagner

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

— Roman Coppola

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

— Theresa Breslin

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

— Paul Stanley

I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

— Earl Nightingale

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

— Susie Orbach

“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser