Writer Quotes · Page 425

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

— Clive Cussler

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

— Andrea Arnold

“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.”

— Aman Jassal

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

— Mathias Dopfner

“Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.”

— Rick Springfield

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

— Ravi Subramanian

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

— Simone Weil

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott

“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on…

— Jeanette Michelle

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it…

— Vivian Gornick

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value…

— Margie B. Klein

“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our…

— Ronald Molmisa

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

— Bill Watterson

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying…

— Ian Doescher

“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.”

— Judah Lee Davis

“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have…

— Gideon Defoe

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...…

— Woodrow Wilson

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but…

— David Means

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.…

— Arundhati Roy

“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“What filled the rooms of Grete's cottage so decidedly were woven baskets and wooden boxes and clay pots glazed in red and…

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its…

— James Allen

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

— Joan Didion

I don't read online... I need a physical book in my hand.

— Barun Sobti

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

— Joyce Maynard

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

— Adam Gopnik

“because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly”

— Laura Miller

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

— Vince Gilligan

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

— Matt Duffer

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

— Chad Harbach

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

“Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”

— Justin Alcala

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

— Gautham Menon

“While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.”

— Anonymous

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

— Charlie Huston