Writer Quotes · Page 298

“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them”

— Barbara Kingsolver

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

— John Lanchester

“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron

“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity”

— Malcolm X

“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a…

— Victoria Connelly

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything…

— William Bell

“Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence,…

— Anonymous

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list…

— Anne Rice

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

— J. M. Coetzee

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the…

— William Sleator

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I…

— Nathan Englander

“A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party. It’s also full of demons, like a…

— Colin Nissan

“Occupation: Writer Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I've decided my…

— Christy Hall

you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known…

— Helen Gurley Brown

If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If…

— Philip Pullman

“This book is destined to make waves no matter which ocean you throw it into. This is the first book Jarod's put…

— Jarod Kintz

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at…

— Steve Berry

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and…

— A. E. van Vogt

“As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter: genuine clarity genuine…

— Richard Yates

“I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.”

— Ann Marie Frohoff

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.”

— Leslie Cockburn

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

— Teri Garr

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

— Kingsley Amis

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

— Jim Rash

“to read or not to read... that is a silly question”

— Harlequin

“Virginia Wolf once said, “I ransack libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.”

— Lili Valente

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

— robert m drake

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo