Writer Quotes · Page 376

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

— Robert Kirkman

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

— Anonymous

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

— Alexandra Petri

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary— too easy to rewrite.”

— Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I write things that I love I write things that I hate but the problem with what I write is I poorly…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange…

— Anne Fadiman

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to…

— Michelle Zauner

“It wasn’t really a journal. I tried keeping a journal, but it would always be one long entry filling the first seven…

— Charlotte Leonetti

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps…

— Barbara Bush

As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of…

— Wright Morris

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

— Frank Westheimer

The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling…

— Jerry Stahl

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want…

— Sigrid Nunez

Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific…

— Bob Bergen

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you…

— David Massengill

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened…

— Mo Yan

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you…

— Paul McCartney

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

— Michael Morpurgo

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

— E. B. White

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

— Leslie Fiedler

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

— Donald Barthelme

“These words I write, why I decided to write them, none of it will matter”

— Emily Curtis

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

— Quincy Jones

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

— Robert Jordan

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

“Here are my criteria for a good book: you start reading and you don't stop.”

— Anonymous

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”

— Lang Leav

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody