Writer Quotes · Page 388

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

— Elizabeth Bishop

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

— Joanna Trollope

“A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.”

— Mark Rubinstein

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've never stopped writing and creating, because that's what I do.

— Larry Graham

If you wanna write what is in your heart you'll be the pen and I'll be the paper

— Anonymous

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

— Amy Bloom

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

— Edwin Paxton Hood

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work…

— Gopi Sundar

Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book…

— Joachim de Posada

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…

— Yoshida Kenko

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come…

— Peter Gould

“But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book…

— Beth Ann Fennelly

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves…

— Bryan Fuller

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist…

— Jeff Kinney

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the…

— Brian Helgeland

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit…

— Michael Morpurgo

“Fans of the Peanuts comic strip may also remember Snoopy beginning his novel again and again, always starting with the line 'It…

— Christopher Beha

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I…

— Chris Abani

After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was…

— Scott Aukerman

“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a…

— Nicola Haken

I was obsessed with everything and anything; I wanted to learn everything, to read everything, to do everything. I was constantly on…

— Amanda Gorman

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

— Louis L'Amour

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

— Sophie Kinsella

“We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.”

— Teri S. Lesesne

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

— Abraham Cowley

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

— Peter King

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.”

— Will Schwalbe

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

— Irvine Welsh

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

— Kiran Desai

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

— Joanne Harris

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

— Mary Jo Putney

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

— Mordicai Gerstein