Writer Quotes · Page 399

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

— Graham Nash

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

— Robert Crumb

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of…

— Michael Dirda

“My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and…

— Washington Irving

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

— Umberto Eco

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but…

— Barry Hannah

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories,…

— Dario Argento

“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.”

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting…

— Augusten Burroughs

One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are…

— Grenville Kleiser

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing.…

— Toni Morrison

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.…

— John Grisham

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the…

— Vivian Gornick

One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and…

— Anthony Burgess

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of…

— George Orwell

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

— Joseph Heller

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

— Georg Brandes

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

— Sampha

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

— Mitch Hedberg

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

— Anita Brookner

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

— Tucker Max

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

— Sophy Burnham

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

— Ted Hughes