Writer Quotes · Page 396

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

— Seth Godin

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

— Arthur Smith

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

— Hudson Stuck

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

— Kate Morton

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

— Anonymous

It is not about of how many books you have, it is about of how you read them.

— Anonymous

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have…

— Dylan Moran

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and…

— Pat Barker

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

— Ernest Cline

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it…

— Anita Desai

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

— Neil Gaiman

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in…

— Karan Bajaj

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point…

— James Salter

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help…

— Marina Oliver

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent…

— Judith Barrington

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany…

— Michael Dirda

It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you…

— Natalie Goldberg

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting…

— Anonymous

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes…

— Calvin Trillin

“And you’re not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you’ll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if…

— Caroline Kepnes

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest,…

— Claire Tomalin

“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people,…

— Lemony Snicket

Every summer has a story and I wish these summer will be the best story I had.

— Leo

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

— Amber Benson

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

— Joshua Ferris

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

— James Atlas

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

— Sasha Alexander

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

— Anthony Doerr

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

— Evangeline Lilly

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

— Drew Barrymore

“If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.”

— Linda Yezak

“Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds" ~Vianka Van Bokkem”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there.”

— C.M. Stunich