Writer Quotes · Page 416

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”

— Laura Goode

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

“Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but”

— J.D. Vance

“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.”

— China Miéville

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

— Stephen Hendry

Move on,its just a chapter in the past,but don't close the book,Turn The Page.

— IrisJC

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

— Alex Flinn

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

— Jay Neugeboren

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to…

— Margaret Haddix

“Now I know how people can live without books, without college. (...)and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times…

— Sylvia Plath

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

— Nelson Algren

“I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.…

— Ann Patchett

“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.”

— Roald Dahl

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted…

— Saul Bellow

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex…

— Gary Lutz

“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely…

— William Ritter

“Books are just like Rorschach tests. The patterns we find in a book’s ink reveal far more about us than they do…

— Sean Norris

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,…

— Simon Cheshire

“Why did you start to write? I left at 15.. I started to write becase I was taken off a ship from…

— Hubert Selby Jr

Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding.…

— Emma Healey

When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,…

— William S. Burroughs

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I…

— Amy Bloom

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration…

— Maya Angelou

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

— Nick Yarris

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

— Dean Koontz

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

— Jeffrey Archer

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!”

— Curlie Q. Link

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

— Zach Galifianakis

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

— Jeffery Deaver

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

— Timothy D. Snyder

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons