Writer Quotes · Page 412

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

— Derren Brown

“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”

— Ali Shaw

“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.”

— John Rogers

Friends are like books, some are Fiction and some are Nonfiction.

— Anonymous

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.”

— Drew Magary

“Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ‘right till the end.”

— Robert Macfarlane

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

— Amelia Barr

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising…

— Francine Prose

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…

— Paul Di Filippo

“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book…

— Sara Levine

I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the…

— Michael Connelly

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,…

— Karl Marlantes

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing.…

— Rosemary Daniell

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move…

— Stephen Reid

I think Lena Dunham is a very bright and very interesting writer, and what she's accomplished at such a young age absolutely…

— Roxane Gay

“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man…

— Martha Cooley

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful…

— Sonnia Kemmer

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join…

— Tom Robbins

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We…

— Katherine Paterson

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but…

— Nora Ephron

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding…

— George Saunders

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today…

— Jean Fritz

“He would think God was a dyke librarian, and he would know the fear of her.”

— Joe Hill

“if you are satisfied with your first draft you are not writing, you are excreting”

— Jennifer Ross

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“There is no greater feeling than to have found my passion in writing.”

— Robin Murphy

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

— Erica Jong

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

— Calvin Trillin

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.”

— Saleem Sharma

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

— Don Rickles

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

— John Steinbeck

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

— Lisa Joy