Writer Quotes · Page 360

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Beat up old books still have hope and life in their pages." :) :)”

— Hanna Gritton

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.”

— Anne Carson

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by…

— Susan Orlean

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long…

— John Irving

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used…

— Michael Palin

“I’m only doing this because I started it and now I have to finish it,” he adds. “The next trilogy will be…

— J. W. Rinzler

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.

— Snoh Aalegra

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I…

— Jim Shepard

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same…

— Marcia Preston

“And suddenly, having waited so long to hold it in my hands, I felt paralyzed to read it. Certainly, I was unable…

— Sana Krasikov

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…

— Eudora Welty

“You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how…

— Wallace Stegner

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers…

— Charles Ghigna

I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe…

— Michael Tobias

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN”

— Hal Elrod

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

— Criss Jami

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

— Bob Seger

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee