Writer Quotes · Page 300

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

— Miles Teller

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

— Nicholas Sparks

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

— Betty MacDonald

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

— Richard Russo

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

Lansens is a willing storyteller… As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be…

— Noah Richler

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy…

— Jimmy Breslin

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens…

— Anne Rice

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is…

— Francesca Lia Block

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.…

— Nicole Krauss

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an…

— Charles Stross

There is no shortcut to anywhere worth going. There is no substitute for doing the work. Meditate on this every day: I…

— Melchor Lim

“She chattered on about the Inn. 'I'm a genius,' she said. 'I got three hundred people into two rooms that were meant…

— Barbara Cohen

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were…

— Rob Thomas

But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books…

— Jonathan Evison

The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in…

— Andrew X. Pham

I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a…

— Steve Almond

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three,…

— Nora Roberts

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

“Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.”

— Elizabeth Graver

If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.

— Ruskin Bond

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

— Michel Faber

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.”

— Dennis Lehane

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

— Meryl Streep

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

— Nellie L. McClung

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

— Joseph J. Ellis

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

“We don’t want to be stuck on the train with nothing to read.”

— Genevieve Cogman