Writer Quotes · Page 297

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

— Virginia Woolf

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”

— Julie Rodelli

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

— Natalie Prass

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

— Meg Rosoff

“Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.”

— M.L. Stephens

“When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can…

— Jeff Goins

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .…

— Mark Twain

We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!

— Robert Ben Garant

“And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday…

— Lisa Wingate

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for…

— Katherine Anne Porter

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to…

— Fred D'Aguiar

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting…

— Manning Marable

While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could…

— Martie Maguire

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.…

— Grace Paley

“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers.…

— Jodi Picoult

“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me…

— Kate DiCamillo

Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your…

— Lee Wyndham

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want…

— Nick Hornby

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if…

— Brent Weeks

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

— Norm MacDonald

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

— Terry Pratchett

“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.”

— Paul J. Silvia

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

“Collecting data is easy; writing about data is hard.”

— Paul J. Silvia

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

— Gilles Deleuze

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

— Sue Townsend

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

— E. L. Doctorow

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

— Jan Garbarek