Writer Quotes · Page 273

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

“optimistic people didn’t write Pulitzer Prize-winning material—grumpy, pessimistic cynics did.”

— Nicole Williams

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

“And no reason to talk about the books I read but I still do...”

— Morrissey

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

— Paul Theroux

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

Writing something down that I'm struggling with makes it feel less scary or more manageable.

— Noah Kahan

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself…

— Ron Rash

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and…

— Peter Hedges

[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't…

— Paul S. Kemp

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

— David Lodge

“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.”

— Ksenia Anske

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.…

— Adam Scott

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though…

— Alice Munro

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and…

— Anne Lamott

“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a…

— Elizabeth Strout

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre…

— David McCullough

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a…

— Garrison Keillor

“Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some…

— Anonymous

Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I…

— Poo Bear

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only…

— Julia Glass

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

— Letitia Wright

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

— Rick Atkinson

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

— Jim James

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

— Anne Enright

“Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...”

— Himmilicious

I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.

— Erika Christensen

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

“I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.”

— Laini Giles

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

— Patti Smith

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

— Donna Jo Napoli

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

— Annie Barrows