Writer Quotes · Page 288

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

“Vale is allowed to write about anything he wants. Pater”

— Leta Blake

A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory.

— Anonymous

“I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Every word that I say is true all I write its only for you..

— Nishant Grover

“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!”

— Avijeet Das

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

“I am full of madness, i can't hide my fire I burn for the things i love, my soul will never retire.”

— Nikki Rowe

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,…

— Anonymous

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

— Gore Vidal

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…

— Russell Banks

“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my…

— Jeanette Winterson

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

— Tahir Shah

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the…

— Laura van den Berg

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right…

— Charles Cumming

It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's…

— Jess Walter

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one…

— Gary Kemp

“In truth, age is a writer’s ally. The greater the experience, the more we have to say. More time to learn important…

— Randy Kraft

I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way…

— Lore Segal

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Journaling is the biggest thing for me. I'm able to write things down. There are so many little things. I don't even…

— Tyrese Haliburton

I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write…

— John Fullbright

I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and…

— Robert Crais

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”

— David Foster Wallace

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

— Harrison Barnes

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

— Lisa Gardner

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

— Stef Penney

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

— Lena Dunham

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus