Writer Quotes · Page 266

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

— Phoebe Bridgers

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

— David Hare

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

— Tony Hillerman

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf

I made up a story about you and I. I lived it like it was true. I loved it like a boo.

— Ama M

People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.

— Tom Peters

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

— Mark Skousen

“All great stories began as shitty first drafts. There are no exceptions to this.”

— M. Kirin

“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'…

— Ophelia Lovibond

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out…

— Sarah Silverman

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an…

— Edward Gorey

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to…

— Davy Rothbart

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

— Varun Grover

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

— Kurt Vile

“No matter how entertaining, diverse, concise, or detailed, a writing craft book is, it’s not going to work magic on you, it’s…

— Jessica Bell

“He acquired more and more books, books being an acknowledged extravagance he could seldom curb. (With one London bookseller he had placed…

— David McCullough

“Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block,…

— Tony Kushner

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in…

— Lucian of Samosata

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological…

— Amos Oz

“Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it; But you might not be…

— Topsy Gift

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.”

— Christie Watson

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

— Helene Cixous

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

— Anonymous

“I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.”

— Buffy Andrews

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

— Alice Hoffman

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

— Cornelia Funke

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

— Israel Zangwill

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

— Thomas Pynchon

“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.”

— Fierce Dolan

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

— Ester Dean

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce