Writer Quotes · Page 423

“Yes. They're bringing in books from all over the world and burning them here.”

— Sōsuke Natsukawa

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

— Barry B. Longyear

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

— William Faulkner

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

— Jim Crace

“Ferrets! Learn About Ferrets And Learn To Read - The Learning Club!”

— Leah Ledos

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

— Nora Roberts

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

— George Pelecanos

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the…

— Jane Haddam

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read…

— Anonymous

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a…

— John Waters

Everyone should have a form of a diary its a great release Most peoples Diaries are called My Diary Mines called Conversations…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

— Edna O'Brien

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

— Dani Shapiro

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who…

— Marie Rutkoski

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without…

— Saul Bellow

Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because…

— Rick Riordan

I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate…

— Jan Clausen

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed…

— Alex Haley

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced,…

— Miriam Toews

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and…

— Joshua Foer

First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas…

— Frederick Busch

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to…

— Margaret Laurence

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen…

— Ben Dolnick

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

— Sonali Bendre

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

— Karen Thompson Walker

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

“Yes, I love books.” He joined her at the bookshelves. “They are a whole other world.”

— Jennifer Malone Wright

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

— Zadie Smith

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

— Alan Moore

I'm never really thinking about other people when I'm writing.

— Gracie Abrams

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

— Darby Conley

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

— Salman Rushdie

These women living like they tryna write a book after. But I'm just trying to keep it G for my chapter.

— Drake

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

— Bruce Jackson

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

— Kate DiCamillo