Writer Quotes · Page 37

“Why I Write,”

— Thomas E Ricks

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

— Shane Black

“I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie!”

— José N. Harris

When a new book is published, read an old one.

— Samuel Rogers

I have always found writing very difficult.

— Sandra Brown

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

— Howard Gordon

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

— J. P. Donleavy

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

— Ron Carlson

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

— Susanna Clarke

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

— John Green

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

— Theophile Gautier

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

— Janet Evanovich

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

— Marie Lu

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

When it comes to writing, I don't want to cheat the people. I don't wanna rush that.

— Deon Cole

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

— Eleanor Catton

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second…

— Zadie Smith

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New…

— Cyril Connolly

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk…

— Dylan Moran

I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually…

— Gemma Atkinson

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly…

— Rudolf Flesch

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then…

— Charlie Trotter

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

— Shaun Evans

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

— Anne Lamott

“I pick up a book from the stack Gabby has made, and I start to read. The book is slow to start,…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that…

— Robert Bringhurst

I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m…

— Dorianne Laux

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of…

— Sara Sheridan

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to…

— Ray Bradbury

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does…

— Lucy Larcom

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those…

— Will Self

If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly…

— Daniel Pennac

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

— Jonathan Carroll

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

— Shane Black

I am always trying to write.

— Joanna Newsom

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut.

— Antonin Scalia

Beware the man of a single book.

— Anonymous