Writer Quotes · Page 410

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy

“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

— Brock Clarke

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

— Peter Sotos

“A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.”

— C. S. Lakin

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

— Raymond Aron

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer

“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which…

— Sol Luckman

Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is…

— Zara Larsson

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or…

— Michael Scott

Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a…

— Randy Orton

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about…

— William Joyce

“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.”

— Lev Grossman

“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding…

— Heenashree Khandelwal

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

— Alasdair Gray

“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are…

— Graham Greene

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.…

— Mike A. Lancaster

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us…

— James Wood

My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and…

— Clarence Major

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye…

— E.L. Doctorow

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and…

— Margot Livesey

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…

— Paul Di Filippo

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

— Junot Diaz

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Clarence Day

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

— Seymour Hersh

I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

— Gore Vidal

YA readers are just not rigid about genre. They're all for the mash-up.

— Leigh Bardugo

He's just a chapter. Turn the page but don't close the book.

— B

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

— Chuck Klosterman

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

— Flannery O'Connor

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

— Norman Mailer

“Never be fat in the mind, reading is exercise for the mind.”

— Aymen Boujelben

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”

— Elizabeth Savage