Writer Quotes · Page 343

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

— Stephen King

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

— Stuart Taylor

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

— Maurice Sendak

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

— Earl King

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

— Elissa Schappell

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

— Stephenie Meyer

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still…

— Lynne Tillman

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you…

— Lisa Lutz

“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." ( Letter to Cynthia Asquith , November 1913)”

— D.H. Lawrence

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

— Robert Munsch

“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it…

— John Dewey

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth-…

— Dave Barry

I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire…

— Rowan Atkinson

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes…

— Leonard Bishop

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,…

— Italo Calvino

“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture…

— David Foster Wallace

“I love to read. However, there have been times when certain books did not resonate with me because the timing was off…

— Susan C. Young

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -…

— Henry James

The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the…

— Frank Deford

“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion…

— robert m drake

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,…

— Junot Diaz

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,…

— Patrick deWitt

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

— Daphne Guinness

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

— Maxim Gorky

“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”

— Robert Galbraith

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

— Carol Kane

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

— Walter Lippmann

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

— Eleanor Catton

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

— Laurence Housman

“I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again.”

— Caris O'Malley

“Books are not life, however much we may wish they were”

— Julian Barnes

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

— Matthew Lesko

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

— Wally Wood