Writer Quotes · Page 296

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

— James Buckley

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

— Gerald Clarke

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

— Patrick Rothfuss

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

— Howard Jacobson

“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.”

— Anthony Horowitz

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip…

— Daniel Handler

People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and…

— Dave Eggers

In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women…

— Sarah Weinman

“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”

— John Irving

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits…

— Jenny Offill

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their…

— Robert E. Howard

“Back in my cabin I asked the library computer for hard copy of Chapter One, but instead of getting something out of…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“You fling the book on the floor, you would hurl it out of the window, even out of the closed window, through…

— Italo Calvino

“You can love a bad book for its haplessness or pomposity or gall, if you have that starveling appetite for things human…

— Marilynne Robinson

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when…

— Hilary Mantel

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have…

— Dani Harper

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books…

— Cornelia Funke

“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…

— Susan Hill

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

— Allison Williams

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

— Tony Hillerman

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

— Jodi Picoult

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

— Stefflon Don

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon