Writer Quotes · Page 284

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

— Walter Benjamin

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!”

— Chocolate Waters

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

— Terry Pratchett

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

— Horace Walpole

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

— Caleb Reese

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

— Chris Abani

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that…

— Bennett Cerf

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready…

— Colm Toibin

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word,…

— Michel Faber

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…

— Diane Johnson

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...”

— Josip Novakovich

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a…

— Robert Gottlieb

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one…

— John Gardner

“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those…

— Hilary Mantel

“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste…

— L. M. Montgomery

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose…

— Alan Moore

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started…

— Sherwood Smith

I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so…

— Benji Hughes

There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was…

— Sue Grafton

Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and…

— James N. Frey

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

— Dakota Fanning

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

— Lucy Fry

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

— Neil Strauss

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

— Manju Kapur

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

— David Sedaris

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

— Edwidge Danticat

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

“I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.”

— Mike Philbin

“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

— Pink

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

— Chath Piersath

“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

— Diane Setterfield