Writer Quotes · Page 358

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

— Kelsey Grammer

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

— Stephen King

Kat Stratford: Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive, alcoholic misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail…

— 10 Things I Hate About You

When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and…

— Emma Healey

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue…

— Devon Monk

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Friends R like a page in a book of life, Every page with a different subject. But best friends r d index…

— Abhijeet

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Even though I'm an ordinary writer, I too, have trouble when it come to writing along the way. But at least I…

— Simi Sunny

“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.…

— Colum McCann

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is…

— Andrew Clements

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who…

— ALA

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it…

— Sampha

The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down?…

— E. L. Doctorow

I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my…

— Andrew Bird

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. John Le Carre

— John Le Carre

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

— Jane Austen

Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

— Anonymous

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus