Writer Quotes · Page 41

I have a little writer's cabin in the mountains.

— Robby Hoffman

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

— Matt Mullenweg

VReading is my greatest luxury.

— Louise Brown

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

— Meg Cabot

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

“Reading is a wonderful adventure.”

— Marcia Weber Martins

“Reading a book is something you do to yourself.”

— Last Man Standing

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

— Earl King

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

— Elissa Schappell

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

— Clive Cussler

Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.

— Seanan McGuire

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world…

— Orhan Pamuk

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also…

— Mortimer Adler

“I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to…

— Roy Peter Clark

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer…

— Terence Winter

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare…

— David Hume

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until…

— Beverly Cleary

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love…

— Tim Gunn

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or…

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into…

— Ashwin Sanghi

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:…

— David Simon

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll…

— Sydney Lea

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book…

— George Orwell

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious…

— Sylvia Beach

Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months…

— Dinty W. Moore

I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because…

— Lil Baby

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty…

— Joseph Howe

I've always written short stories.

— Michael McDonald

If you don't know it, don't write it.

— Darrell Schweitzer

I cannot live without reading.

— Aidan Chambers

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

— Peter Milligan

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“A true lover of books knows no time.”

— Rosie Alison

“Casanova was a librarian.”

— John Lloyd

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff