Writer Quotes · Page 404

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

— Rod Serling

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

— Donald Ray Pollock

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

— Johnathon Schaech

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

— Janet Evanovich

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a…

— David Linley

“I'm a librarian, i'm a librarian and I like it quiet So, the pages can be heard I'm a librarian, i'm a…

— Jonathan Rundman

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I…

— Arthur Phillips

“For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters…

— Kiana Madeira

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden…

— Anonymous

“Two people at a cocktail party. One turns to the other and says: "I'm writing a novel." The other replies, "Neither am…

— Private Eye

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Melrose was so concerned that the [book]shop might close for lack of business, that he had suggested he would like to invest…

— Martha Grimes

People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How…

— Walter Mosley

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the…

— James Ellroy

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me…

— Jonathan Ames

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that…

— Sam Lipsyte

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a…

— Thomas Wolfe

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

— Jamila Woods

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”

— M. Kirin

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

— John Dufresne

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

— Ernest Hemingway

“after a miles time, writing leads me to write lines, this made forgot my past.. and made me new...”

— Will's

Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but dont close the book- just turn the page.

— U

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

The day I fail to understand that day I will stop writing quotes

— Mak_786

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

— Paul S. Kemp

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

— Marian Keyes

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum