Writer Quotes · Page 401

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.

— Kenya Barris

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

— James Mercer

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

— Josh Hutcherson

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

— Barry Mann

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.”

— Ryan Lilly

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and…

— Isabel Allende

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

— John Mortimer

“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when…

— Susan Cain

“I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of…

— Harriet Lane

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced…

— Zig Ziglar

Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works.

— Celeste Ng

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for…

— St. Teresa Of Avila

“He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have…

— Jamie S. Rich

Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of…

— Sarah Jio

“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff,…

— Emma Shortt

“there.” Annie finished cleaning up in the kitchen, went to the makeshift office, and dropped into the swivel chair behind the desk.…

— Rayven T. Hill

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I…

— Gretchen Rubin

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

“Books have the profound capacity to stay with us for the rest of our lives. That´s why I love them!!”

— Sofia Camara

“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.”

— Jay Kristoff

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

— George Orwell

“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?”

— Diane Setterfield

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

— Raymond Kethledge

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

— Paul Dano

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

— Toni Cade Bambara

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

— Ned Beauman

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

— Emilio Estevez

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

— Sarah Pinborough

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

“Today literature must either be protest or consolation”

— Elie Wiesel