Writer Quotes · Page 292

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

— Chris Harris, Jr

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

— Paul Rust

“Love paints the heart so delicate; so why would my words ever borrow the ink of their own demise?”

— Laura Chouette

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

— Elif Batuman

I believe with books as with money, you dont loan you get.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

— J. K. Rowling

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

— Aldous Huxley

“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction…

— Charles Van Doren

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book…

— Vinny Guadagnino

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines…

— Alice Sebold

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you…

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own…

— Louis L'Amour

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

— Uzodinma Iweala

“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“spell. Reluctant to stop reading, she closed the book, and then slipped it into her purse so she could pick it up…

— C.J. Carmichael

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if…

— William T. Vollmann

“Children don t read to find their identity to free themselves from guilt to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“That was a tremendous learning experience,” said McCarthy. “Never judge a book by its cover; open it up. If you treat a…

— Robert Spector

he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or…

— Charles Bukowski

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the…

— Salman Rushdie

Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.”

— Kelly Gallagher

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

— Taika Waititi

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

— E. M. Forster

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

— Arthur Miller

“That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.”

— Ruth Downie

“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

— Voltaire

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

— Graham Greene

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan