Writer Quotes · Page 304

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

— Steve Buscemi

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

— Tori Spelling

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.

— SZA

“One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human.”

— Foster Laverne Harding

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard…

— John Fowles

The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into…

— Shannen Wrass

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years…

— Dana Spiotta

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have…

— Iris Chang

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

— Ted Hughes

“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with…

— Virginia Woolf

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I…

— Desmond Morris

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.…

— Betsy Byars

“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had…

— Charlotte Bronte

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:…

— C. S. Lewis

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I…

— Richard Dooling

I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish…

— Neel Mukherjee

“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the…

— Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason

I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured…

— Ken Shamrock

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

— Alan Bradley

“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.”

— Anna Glazebrook

“Reading reverses the aging of the brain and keeps your brain healthy and young.”

— Rosalyn Noel

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

Books are for only those who can live without television.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”

— Zaman Ali

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

— Erica Brown

“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.”

— Jason Ellis

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin