Writer Quotes · Page 294

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I just respond to the stories I'm being asked to tell.

— Steven Pasquale

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

— Anne McCaffrey

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

— Anonymous

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make…

— Vivian Gornick

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

— Mercedes Lackey

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at…

— Rose Tremain

“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.”

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing…

— Ayana Mathis

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to…

— Christopher Fry

“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.”

— Jarod Kintz

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call…

— Jane Yolen

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if…

— C. S. Lewis

I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had…

— Garrett Hedlund

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world…

— Victoria Laurie

Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but…

— Jenny Zhang

With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious…

— Rossiter Johnson

People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I…

— Alan Gratz

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

“❝ fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies into meaning.❞”

— dorothy allison

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

— Emily Saliers

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

— James Ivory

“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.”

— ChristaCarol Jones

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

— Peter Greenaway

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”

— Criss Jami

“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”

— Martin Myers

I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

— Sam Hunt

“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet”

— Charlie Jones

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman