Writer Quotes · Page 329

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

“You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.”

— Saleem Sharma

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

— Lisa Joy

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in…

— John Rhys-Davies

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.”

— Torgny Lindgren

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing…

— George Saunders

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

— Joseph Brodsky

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!

— Chevy Stevens

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

— Peter Turchi

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be…

— Yann Martel

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.…

— S. I. Hayakawa

I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow…

— Allegra Goodman

Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate…

— James Ellroy

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered…

— Paul Di Filippo

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting…

— Paul Bloom

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're…

— George Pelecanos

After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework…

— Kent Haruf

“So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is…

— David Morrell

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

— John Steinbeck

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

— Don Rickles

In a parallel universe, I'm on a shitty website writing about myself in a parallel universe.

— Nikhil Saluja

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

— Wole Soyinka

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

— Dennis Ritchie

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

— Bob Mortimer

“Books are much better companions to me than people.”

— Rakesh Satyal

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

— China Mieville

“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

— James Bryce

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

— Rick Riordan

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

— John Wesley Harding

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]”

— Franz Kafka

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

— Alan Dershowitz

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

— M. Night Shyamalan