Writer Quotes · Page 426

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

“I always prefer fiction. Anything else feels like homework.”

— AnnaLisa Grant

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

— Sergei Dovlatov

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

— Julian Barnes

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

— Anonymous

“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to…

— Kobo Abe

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to…

— Ron Koertge

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the…

— Toni Blake

“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.”

— Nora Roberts

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.”

— Karl Vaters

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about…

— Zal Batmanglij

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it…

— Lupe Fiasco

“I write because of the fragility of our existence. I write because it's my answer to impermanence. I write because it helps…

— T. Scott McLeod

“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to…

— Jodi Picoult

“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

“Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that…

— Alice Munro

“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want…

— David Foster Wallace

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the…

— Tom Hooper

“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel…

— Martin Amis

Sometimes, my reading choices are defined by the place I'm travelling next.

— Sudha Murty

“If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility.”

— Richard Luciano

“I may have written this before, but I may not have written it as well, so I’ll write it again.”

— Jarod Kintz

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”

— Candace Bowen Early

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

— Fred Saberhagen

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

— Sloane Crosley

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

— Francois Mauriac

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

— Don Winslow

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!”

— Thoreau Henry David

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

— Janet Fitch

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

— Natasha Leggero

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

— Scott Turow