Writer Quotes · Page 333

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

— Samuel R. Delany

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll

“Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.”

— Rodney Richards

Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.

— Ken Loach

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

— Dodie Smith

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

— Louisa May Alcott

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories…

— Susan Glaspell

“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward…

— Neil Gaiman

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me…

— Neil Simon

“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening…

— Haruki Murakami

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it…

— Charles Forsman

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original…

— Louise Wilson

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the…

— FKA twigs

A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas…

— Gretchen Rubin

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must…

— James A. Baldwin

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows…

— M. H. Abrams

“What makes an author write under a different name ? Well, some may actually be criminals on the run, looking to make…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba…

— Enock Maregesi

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,…

— Michael Dirda

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

— Jackson Pearce

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

— Roald Dahl

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

— Robert Black

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”

— Anna Quindlen

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

— Anonymous

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

— David Mitchell

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

— Richard Scarry

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

I always work on the principle that if my heart and my head are together on an issue, write it, say it.

— Dennis Skinner