Writer Quotes · Page 270

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

— Nicholas Mosley

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

— Mitt Romney

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

— John Wesley

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

Once you finish reading a book , you find out how different you are from other people.

— MlY AB

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,…

— Irvine Welsh

“Getting a flow going with writing can be hard, but sometimes if you dig into the right emotions that you want to…

— Faith Clarkson

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a…

— Jim Trelease

“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing…

— Hélène Cixous

“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.”

— Charles Medawar

To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to…

— Len Wein

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to…

— Maryanne Wolf

“My normal friends loved having a token author. Just like every WoW raiding party needs at least one healer, every gaggle needs…

— Jessica Wildfire

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen…

— Steve Almond

You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do…

— Margaret Atwood

“I argue here and throughout this book that if we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such…

— Troy Hicks

The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and…

— Chelsea Martin

I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't…

— Saul Bellow

Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out…

— Andrew Latimer

“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette…

— Truman Capote

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

— Dorothy Parker

“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.”

— Emma Shortt

“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.”

— Nevea Lane

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

— D. H. Lawrence

I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in Covent Garden.

— David Essex

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

— Natalie Goldberg

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

— Jessamyn West

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

— Peter H. Reynolds

“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti

“the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read”

— Stephen R. Covey

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic...”

— Erika Swyler