Writer Quotes · Page 255

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

— Taylor Sheridan

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

— Jess Walter

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

— Nick Cave

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

— Guillermo del Toro

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

— Dylan Thomas

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

— Haruki Murakami

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

— Kate Greenaway

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

— Ben Sasse

“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first…

— Laura Nowlin

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my…

— Natalie Morales

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

— David Frum

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences,…

— Mick Farren

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order…

— Stephen King

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a…

— Guy Kawasaki

…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also…

— Anonymous

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of…

— James Patterson

“So I write thoughts and emotions Taking birth in words And dying unsung in words! Words stitched together To give meaning to…

— Avijeet Das

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,…

— Michael Silverblatt

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit…

— Maxwell Perkins

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.…

— Chaim Potok

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,…

— Jackie French

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

— Moby

“I write for teens (I am one!) and I hope to help them connect with the writings and enjoy reading.”

— Cali Amber

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

— John le Carre

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

“Old.  Old is relative, girl.  No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.”

— Hannah Crow

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

— William Faulkner

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

— Isabel Allende

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

— Rita Dove

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

— Bernard Malamud

“From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

— David Foster Wallace