Writer Quotes · Page 301

I'm a writer through and through. I'll always write.

— Steven Rinella

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

— Teju Cole

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.

— Luis Negron

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

— Natsuki Takaya

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So…

— Robert Morgan

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?…

— Paul Beatty

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

— Terry Pratchett

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him…

— Orhan Pamuk

They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author.

— Nishan Panwar

I believe whole-heartedly that anything you are passionate about, you can turn into a career benefit if you are a writer.

— DaniAlla

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to…

— Michelle Dean

In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving…

— Jim Thompson

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expression of sincere concentration he always wore…

— Stephen King

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets…

— Jim Lee

In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes…

— James Tate

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was…

— Harvey Pekar

“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off…

— William Golding

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

— Anna Quindlen

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

— Christina Baldwin

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

— J. Michael Straczynski

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

— Dani Shapiro

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

— Smriti Irani

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

— Li Yuanchao

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

— Siri Hustvedt

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

— Sam Graves

“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.”

— George RR Martin

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

— David Mamet

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

— Maryanne Wolf