Writer Quotes · Page 282

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

— Marla Frazee

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

— Kim Edwards

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

— Arthur C. Clarke

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed

— Daniel J. Boorstin

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

— Clarice Lispector

“The truth is, my friend, you never know where a book will take you.”

— M. Scott Snelten

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

— Marcus Aurelius

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

— Chris Van Allsburg

Once I'm writing, I'm very disciplined. There's a certain magic. It's like you're living at a deeper current. It's a very complete…

— Laura Nyro

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is…

— Melvil Dewey

“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier.…

— Edward Abbey

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I…

— Ida B. Wells

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time…

— Oh Land

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said,…

— Donald E. Westlake

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits,…

— Christopher Morley

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's…

— Rick Riordan

“The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He…

— La Carmina

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether…

— Zoe Kazan

I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances.…

— Kevin Sampsell

“I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,…

— William Saroyan

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable…

— Daniel Pennac

I feel my thoughts flow freely when I write in Kannada.

— Sudha Murty

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't write story together if u are not on the same page

— D Cortus

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

— Cary Elwes

“Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?”

— Cassandra Clare

“write something you feel about, than delete it. bam! you go back to the start with fresh mind”

— Anonymous

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write”

— Munia Khan

“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me.

— Judge Reinhold

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein