Writer Quotes · Page 247

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

“… no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.”

— Wayne C. Booth

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

— Jane Alison

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”

— CJ Heck

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

I said I have moved on¦but here I am, writing your name on a piece of paper without any reason at all.

— Anonymous

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

— Anthony Minghella

“Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”

— Robertson Davies

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple…

— Alan Lightman

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing…

— Pat Pattison

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that…

— Jack Prelutsky

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

— Arthur Phillips

“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.”

— Marcel Proust

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see…

— Brian A. McBride

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to…

— Jennifer Weiner

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the…

— Dan Gilroy

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also…

— Robert Davi

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on…

— Chevy Stevens

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

— John Irving

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

— Jerry Della Femina

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

— Galen Rowell

“Laurie welcomes ALL Reviews from readers, and will supply an e-book version of the books listed.”

— Laurie Bowler

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

— Henry Mancini

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

— Harlan Howard

“Hemingway’s quote about how a man goes broke: “Gradually and then suddenly.”5”

— Anonymous

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

— Marc Platt

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos