Writer Quotes · Page 281

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

— Lauren Myracle

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

— Paul Harding

“You can “pants” your way through your novel, but you can’t “pants” your way to success.”

— Bob Mayer

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

— Tom Clancy

English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired…

— Alice Waters

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and…

— Frederik Pohl

One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need…

— Kabir Khan

“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s…

— Jeff Goins

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could…

— Carine Roitfeld

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty…

— Harlan Ellison

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience,…

— Karla Souza

“My reviews of the above books appear in my series, A Literary Cavalcade. Reviews are listed alphabetically by author across the six…

— Robert A. Parker

Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is…

— Samantha Shannon

...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended…

— Brandon Sanderson

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want…

— Dorianne Laux

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write…

— Ray Charles

“Keep your head down, fingers on the computer and write. Ignore the naysayers, the skeptics, the friends, church patrons or family members…

— Sarah Gerdes

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the…

— Alan Lightman

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

— Iris Dement

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

“Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.”

— Lisa Cach

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

— George Sand

“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.”

— Rebekah L. Purdy

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

— Ernie Harwell

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

— Italo Calvino

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

— Melvil Dewey

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

— Nick Hornby

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

— Joanne Harris

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

— Cass McCombs

“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...”

— Jane Austen

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

— Alfred North Whitehead