Writer Quotes · Page 249

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

— Dave Finkel

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.”

— William Faulkner

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

— Don Henley

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the…

— Lulu Wang

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get…

— David Shields

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect…

— Brenda Ueland

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that…

— Ben H. Winters

“Busbecq believed there were two blessings in life: books and friends. And that they should be possessed in inverse quantities: many books,…

— Elif Shafak

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

— Renee O'Connor

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case,…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise…

— Nina Bawden

“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and…

— Annie Dillard

“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries…

— Steven L. Carter

“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness…

— robert m drake

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they…

— Donald McKay

I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,…

— Ralph Fiennes

“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I…

— Ken Kalfus

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

— Derek Walcott

“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”

— Michael Knight

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

— Neil Gaiman

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

— Tommy Lee

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

— Patricia Cornwell

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

— Maggie Grace

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

— William Hazlitt

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

— Maren Morris

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”

— Jean Paul Sartre

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein