Writer Quotes · Page 354

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

— Rick Atkinson

“Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.”

— Sara Sheridan

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

— Marie Kondo

“WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE YOU LEARN HOW TO FIGHT FAIR ”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

— Lewis Hamilton

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

— Francisco Costa

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

— Augusten Burroughs

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

— Anonymous

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and…

— Terry Pratchett

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

— Gore Vidal

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It…

— Quentin Blake

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page…

— Bob Goff

“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know…

— Sharon O'Brien

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write…

— Susan Sontag

“Self-editing a novel is like trying to put pants on a cat: yes, it's painful and time consuming, but in the end,…

— Robert Jack

“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in…

— Franz Kafka

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses…

— Roger Rosenblatt

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something…

— Carrie Fisher

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have…

— Rachel Kushner

“It would be rather lovely, [commenting on having an agent] becuase then I would feel better about this whole mess. I think…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as…

— Andrew Sean Greer

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

— Tony Wilson

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

— Marian Keyes

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

— Jonathan Evison

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

— Shania Twain

“The Library should be more of a kitchen than a grocery store."--Joyce Valenza--TED Talk”

— Joyce Valenza

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

— John Braine

“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.”

— robert m drake