Writer Quotes · Page 338

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

— Jesse Ball

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

— Jackie Collins

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

— Daniel Woodrell

“when i say i want to read this book i mean i want to buy this book :)”

— Ghada Mohsen

I consider myself an amateur antiquarian book collector.

— Jenna Ortega

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,

— George Saunders

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to…

— Stefan Zweig

“the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent,…

— Roy Peter Clark

With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process…

— Jay Asher

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track…

— Azgraybebly Josland

“All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the…

— Tahereh Mafi

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I…

— Peter Straub

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the…

— Edmond Jabes

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on…

— Will Schwalbe

A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give…

— Barbara Kingsolver

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came…

— Edna O'Brien

It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do…

— Lynne Tillman

“The Page awaits the Inspiration even as Inspiration roams the world of man, seeking a Page upon which to unfurl itself, body…

— Chila Woychik

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I…

— Paulo Coelho

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.…

— Garrison Keillor

“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,…

— Martin Buber

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

— Mason Cooley

I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.

— Leo Sayer

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

— Jim Lehrer

“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch

We need new stories, but I am looking forward to 'The Dark Crystal'.

— Hale Appleman

“Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them”

— Daniel Defoe

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

— Ramana Maharshi

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.”

— robert m drake

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

— Slowthai

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper