Writer Quotes · Page 309

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

— Satyadev Kancharana

“To hell with everything I myself have ever written.”

— William Carlos Williams

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

— Karen Thompson Walker

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

— Sonali Bendre

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

— George Pelecanos

I'm never really thinking about other people when I'm writing.

— Gracie Abrams

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the…

— Laurie Foos

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try…

— Ted Cruz

Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of…

— Elif Batuman

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines…

— Chris Pavone

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty…

— Chad Harbach

Sadly, there are many children who have not yet been given the chance to 'discover the magic of reading, or set foot…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how…

— Michael Rosen

“What I write [. . .] doesn't seem to be . . . true. I mean I can model so little of…

— Samuel R. Delaney

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing…

— Chad Harbach

“I have found that unless I make myself some office hours and stick to them - 8.30 to 11 A.M. and 1…

— Louise Rich Dickinson

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows.…

— Paul Theroux

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading…

— Stewart O'Nan

I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing.…

— John Grisham

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a…

— Julia Cameron

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great…

— Hemingway Ernest

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

— Alan Moore

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

— Zadie Smith

“Yes, I love books.” He joined her at the bookshelves. “They are a whole other world.”

— Jennifer Malone Wright

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

— Marty Nemko

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

— George Washington

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

— Dawn Olivieri

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

— Kate DiCamillo

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

— Salman Rushdie

These women living like they tryna write a book after. But I'm just trying to keep it G for my chapter.

— Drake

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

— Bruce Jackson

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

— Darby Conley

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides