Writer Quotes · Page 312

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

— Sergei Dovlatov

“I always prefer fiction. Anything else feels like homework.”

— AnnaLisa Grant

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

— Charlie Huston

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

— Francois Mauriac

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

— Sloane Crosley

Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have…

— Lucy Dacus

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have…

— Herman Hesse

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer…

— Alan Lightman

“It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it,…

— Ben Sasse

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing…

— Glen Duncan

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

— Fanny Fern

“Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a…

— Haruki Murakami

I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would…

— Kate Atkinson

writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself…

— Kate Braverman

“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make…

— Steven Lloyd Wilson

I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other…

— Allison Joseph

It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I…

— Rod Serling

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;…

— Clarence Day

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either…

— Gloria Steinem

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it…

— William Lashner

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”

— Candace Bowen Early

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

— Fred Saberhagen

“If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility.”

— Richard Luciano

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

“I may have written this before, but I may not have written it as well, so I’ll write it again.”

— Jarod Kintz

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

— Janet Fitch

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”

— Thoreau Henry David

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

— Don Winslow

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

— Natasha Leggero

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

— will.i.am

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

— Don Mattingly