Writer Quotes · Page 381

Deok Sun, like me, is learning about the world every day, but not through books.

— Lee Hye-ri

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

— Clive Cussler

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.”

— Jerry Stahl

“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken…

— Tracy Chevalier

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and…

— Jo Walton

I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to…

— Daryl Wein

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to…

— Kevin Spacey

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what…

— Neil Gaiman

“THE BEST SINGERS ARE THOSE WHO WERE TOLD BY "LIFE" THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A REASON TO SING OR REJOICE BUT THEY…

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that…

— Margaret Atwood

When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful,…

— Elif Batuman

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us…

— Clifton Fadiman

“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo…

— R. Alan Woods

“Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just…

— Richard Paul Evans

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be…

— Clifton Fadiman

Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.…

— Georges Perec

“I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove…

— Lou Beach

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply…

— Alan Lightman

“Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

— Wallace Stegner

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee

A director in films is closer allied to the writer than anyone else.

— Van Heflin

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

— Anonymous

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

“Only a book is enough to change the course of your life.”

— Aman Jassal

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

— Erik Larson

“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.”

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

— Jill Ker Conway

President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.

— James B. Stewart

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.”

— David Llewellyn

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

— Charles Lamb