Writer Quotes · Page 253

“Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.”

— Verne Harnish

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

— Lincoln Child

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

— Meg Wolitzer

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

— Robert Ben Garant

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

— Matthew Warchus

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

— Matthew Reilly

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

— Henry Rollins

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any…

— Mac Barnett

“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)”

— Waterstones

One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

“It was the same thing, resting in my grave. Peace. I wasn't going anywhere and it made me happy. If only I'd…

— Jim Butcher

I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they…

— Lavie Tidhar

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived…

— Nick Earls

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading.…

— Pankaj Mishra

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…

— Cassandra Clare

When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first…

— John le Carre

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in…

— Alberto Manguel

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows…

— Gustave Flaubert

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like…

— Roger Zelazny

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try…

— George Saunders

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

— Dean Devlin

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.”

— T.J. Mihaila

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

— Lee Child

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

I guess you can tell as a writer I am not a purfektshionist.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.”

— John Hill Burton

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

— Alanis Morissette

“The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.”

— Richelle Mead

“Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.”

— Carol Morgan

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Close the back cover of the book, move on and find something else to do.

— Ramandeep Singh

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

— Young-Ha Kim