Writer Quotes · Page 344

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

— Kingsley Amis

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

— John Green

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

— Theophile Gautier

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

— Janet Evanovich

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

— Susanna Clarke

When it comes to writing, I don't want to cheat the people. I don't wanna rush that.

— Deon Cole

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

— Marie Lu

“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for…

— Bruce Springsteen

Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and…

— Devon Monk

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of…

— Elif Batuman

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become…

— David Lodge

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the…

— Paulo Coelho

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

— Travis Beacham

“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!”

— Jim C. Hines

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

— William Styron

I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be…

— Kate Morton

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that…

— Isabella Bird

I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.…

— David Sedaris

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for…

— Paul De Man

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since…

— Ruth Glick

“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons."…

— Connie Willis

It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut…

— Melina Marchetta

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

— Tony Gilroy

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.

— Tom King

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

— Lara Dutta

“I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.”

— Merce Cardus

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

— Agnes Repplier

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

— Doris Grumbach

“What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure.”

— Horace

“Let books take you somewhere you've never been before”

— Shantae Birton

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

— Aleister Crowley

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I don't know why I end up writing about such heavy topics.

— Declan McKenna

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

— Isaac Asimov

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw