Writer Quotes · Page 352

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

“Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly.”

— Neil Gaiman

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

— David Henry Hwang

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

— Douglas Adams

“What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true”

— Adi Alsaid

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

— Anais Nin

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH”

— Wendy Wax

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

— Len Deighton

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

— Colin Wilson

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture…

— Margaret Mahy

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly…

— Kesha

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please…

— Eric Carmen

“I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my…

— Ray Bradbury

I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of…

— Kay Cannon

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or…

— Michael Morpurgo

Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while…

— Edwin Muir

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When…

— Wayne Dyer

“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven,…

— Edward Abbey

“Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have…

— Jarod Kintz

I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

— Anonymous

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

— Peter Riegert

I create a new and more loving story to surround each event in my past.

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Books do not require either symbols or enemies to be worth reading.

— Ff

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

— Marc Forster

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”

— Dani Harper

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

— Anne Lamott

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

— Steve Martin

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

— Frances McDormand

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

— Dennis Farina

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho