Writer Quotes · Page 317

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

— Stephen Hendry

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

— Dean Koontz

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

— Nick Yarris

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

— Alex Flinn

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

— Jay Neugeboren

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is…

— John Steinbeck

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,…

— Bernard DeVoto

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

— Richard Flanagan

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't…

— David B. Coe

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides…

— Alex Flinn

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell…

— Irwin Winkler

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves…

— Chad Harbach

You know, if you read a book, once you get to chapter five and stuff starts stepping up, it doesn't mean chapters…

— Tyson Kidd

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at…

— Andre Dubus

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth.…

— Jesmyn Ward

When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a…

— Annie Dillard

“I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far." "What…

— John Irving (Author

“In general, I start with an idea and a general gist of how I want the story to end, and I let…

— Kristi Cramer

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

— Jeffrey Archer

Books allowed my imagination to take flight - and it hasn't landed yet.

— Ynn Payne

“The problem with ebooks is you can’t get booger smears on the pages.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

— Jeffery Deaver

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

— Timothy D. Snyder

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

— Zach Galifianakis

“I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!”

— Curlie Q. Link

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

— Anonymous