Writer Quotes · Page 357

“There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

— PJ Harvey

“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.”

— Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele”

— Suzanne Steele

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

— Maya Angelou

I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.

— Paul Heyman

“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to become a librarian.”

— Paulina Porizkova

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so…

— Hilary Mantel

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.”

— David A. Santos

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to…

— John Irving

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them…

— Jenny Holzer

A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.…

— Markus Zusak

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its…

— Morgan Parker

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people,…

— Ann Patchett

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who…

— George R. R. Martin

“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the…

— Cynthia Ozick

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to…

— Paul G. Tremblay

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner…

— Ana Tijoux

A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your…

— Azar Nafisi

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When you read and write good books a divine force will turn you good”

— Smart Oyejide

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

— Anais Nin

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

— Sarah J. Maas

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

— Robin Sloan

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

— Janet Flanner

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”

— Linda Lafferty