Writer Quotes · Page 362

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

— Eddie Van Halen

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

— Michael Patrick King

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it.…

— Tom Peters

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,…

— Neil Gaiman

I never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't…

— Chespirito

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is…

— Cecelia Ahern

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single…

— Anne Fadiman

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

— Virginia Woolf

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of…

— Amish Tripathi

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things…

— Vito Acconci

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.…

— Ashwin Sanghi

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over…

— Rachel Joyce

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -…

— Norman Mailer

“I get inspired to write by watching the news. I listen to conversations I shouldn't listen to. I pay attention to my…

— H.L. Sudler

“I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to read…

— Anita Loos

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,…

— David Edelstein

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

— Henning Mankell

There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

— Billy Howle

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

— Gretchen Rubin

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

— William Gurstelle

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“And I cannot read a page of anything I’ve written without making five changes—that’s my average.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

— Benjamin Clementine

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

— Beverly Cleary

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

— Alice Walker

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

— Anna Karina

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

— Charles Simic