Writer Quotes · Page 271

“A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.”

— George r r martin

“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.”

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

— Nicole Kidman

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

— Eudora Welty

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

— Augusten Burroughs

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

— Roland Barthes

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind…

— Amiri Baraka

“Reading a non-fiction book feels like a religious experience that forever moves my mind and shifts my heart toward greater knowledge.”

— Rachel V Perry

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of…

— Neil Simon

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted…

— Tobias Wolff

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing…

— Beth Hart

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into…

— Rebecca Serle

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would…

— Anne McCaffrey

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit…

— Joanna Scott

“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living…

— Joseph Epstein

We always live in different places because I work in different places so the first thing I do is have 8 million…

— Elizabeth Mitchell

Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into…

— Laura Lippman

Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and…

— Tina Brown

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that…

— Michael Redhill

“Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes…

— Julia Cameron

“Now that reading and writing are universal accomplishments, books are not bought so freely as they were about 1820. . . .…

— Andrew Lang

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

— Sharon Cameron

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

— Amish Tripathi

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

“Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel”

— Marie Corelli

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

— Sholem Asch

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

— Gail Godwin

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

— Fran Lebowitz

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

“Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.”

— H.B. Bolton

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy