Writer Quotes · Page 334

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

— Rex Ryan

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

— Wes Smith

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

— Joan Didion

“I don’t charge for the words I write. I charge for joining them together.”

— Daniel Kemp

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

— Novala Takemoto

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble…

— Leigh Hunt

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that…

— John Green

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye…

— John Green

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf.…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." The most importnant truth in…

— Christopher Paolini

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

— Salman Rushdie

“And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. Black…

— William Shakespeare

“Right," Jenna said. She was sitting on a desk next to me. She spent most of the class reading those mangas she…

— Rachel Hawkins

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think…

— Mary Oliver

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary…

— Neel Mukherjee

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking…

— Merlin Mann

As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as…

— Stephen Schwartz

“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in…

— Walt Whitman

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to…

— Lee Child

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where…

— Gail Carson Levine

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was…

— Alberto Manguel

“Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.”

— R.E. Fisher

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

— Daniel Dennett

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

— Raymond Carver

I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books

— Groucho Marx

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

— Judy Delton

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

— Marianne Williamson

Because I write just at home, I'm just in my T-shirt and sneakers all the time.

— Christine Leunens

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

— Paul Theroux

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

— Jean Malaquais

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck”

— Greig Beck

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

— Ray Bradbury

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner