Writer Quotes · Page 421

“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”

— Ryohgo Narita

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“Those who write the whole nights, keep a nation awake.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

— Sabrina Carpenter

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.”

— John Irving

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by…

— George Orwell

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are…

— Michel Foucault

Life is a book we all read... Love is a blessing we all need... Always be happy... Always have a smile... Cause…

— Nishan Panwar

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some…

— John Steinbeck

“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise,…

— H.P. Oliver

“...ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...”

— Margaret Westhaven

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

— Nathan Englander

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

— J. K. Rowling

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in…

— Iris Johansen

“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are…

— Hélène Cixous

“We tend to believe that if we could just change our workplace, get married, finish writing that novel, buy a new car…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you…

— M. Kirin

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people…

— Brian A. McBride

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if…

— Rick Riordan

“This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited,…

— Adam L. Feldman

D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a…

— Amos Oz

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

— Henry David Thoreau

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

— John Fowles

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

“and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been”

— George Gordon Byron

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

— Joanne Harris

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”

— A.C. Grayling

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

— Rick Riordan

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”

— Lemony Snicket