Writer Quotes · Page 337

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

— Jack Kilby

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

— Marguerite Young

“Books have great value, actions have greater value.”

— Brandon Sanderson

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.”

— Leigh M. Lane

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

— Anonymous

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

— Meles Zenawi

“Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.”

— césar aira

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in…

— Mary J. Miller

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do…

— Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

— Rudyard Kipling

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page…

— Rod Serling

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

— Pablo Neruda

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams…

— Anne Tyler

It's nice to have the creative freedom to write about whatever and no longer feeling those restrictions I had when I was 15.

— Cody Simpson

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like…

— Isabel Allende

“She arrives in Rome prepared, as ever. She brings five guidebooks, all of which she has read already, and she has the…

— Anonymous

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite…

— Charles Lamb

“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Izzy was sitting cross-legged on the couch, a paper-back book in her hands. She didn’t look up when we came in, and…

— Rachel Hawkins

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives…

— Charles Lamb

CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a…

— Lisa Morton

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live…

— Stephen Gaghan

The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of…

— Terry Pratchett

The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.

— Alexander Pope Q

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

— Red Smith

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

— David Thewlis

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

— Stephen Chbosky

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

“There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.”

— Amber Sparks

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

— Douglas Coupland

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos