Writer Quotes · Page 403

A script writer usually manipulates his characters in accordance to the script.

— Vetrimaaran

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

— Marian Keyes

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

— Sylvia Plath

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

— Roald Dahl

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be…

— John K. Samson

People who give an unconditional credit to the work of original thinker, writer and doer, deserve an equal plaudit.

— Anuj Somany

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

— Barry Mann

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing…

— Gunter Grass

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

— David Bezmozgis

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason…

— L. Ron Hubbard

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves…

— Benjamin Cardozo

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I…

— Louise Erdrich

“...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only…

— Joseph Conrad

“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s…

— John Wayne

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“Writers never retire; they just keep sharpening their pencils!”

— Diana Savastano

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

— Tom Barbash

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

— Anthony Horowitz

“We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.”

— Henry Fielding

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I. Writing@55”

— Trice McIntyre

One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'

— Roisin Murphy

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

— Michael Chabon

A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

— Carol Bly

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

— Max Cavalera

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

— Raymond Chandler

“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.”

— Mick Jagger

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis