Writer Quotes · Page 427

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

— Don Mattingly

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

— will.i.am

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

— Hallie Ephron

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

— Helen Dunmore

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.…

— Len Wein

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

— David Guterson

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that…

— Chris Bohjalian

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

— Charles Bukowski

“I need to add pictures for two of my books. I enjoygGoodreads but don't understand it all. Have many friends on here…

— Betty Inabnitt

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of…

— Tracy McMillan

See, I am not a writer. 'Nach Baliye' has its own creative team and a brilliant one at that. But I will…

— Upasana Singh

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had…

— Cornelia Funke

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,…

— Salman Rushdie

“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep…

— Trent Zelazny

Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...…

— Isaac Asimov

“Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered." Bryant's blue eyes widened. "Good Lord, no, why would you want…

— Christopher Fowler

Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested…

— Rebecca Serle

I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from…

— Kevin Myers

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book…

— R. A. Torrey

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

— Raymond Chandler

“I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I.”

— Peter Cook

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

— William Godwin

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

— Bernard Malamud

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

— Anonymous

“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”

— Daphne Athas

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

— Lily Collins

“She was the sexy librarian unpinning her hair and taking off her glasses for him.”

— Lauren Blakely

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

— Jules Renard

“If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”

— Toba Beta

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

— Firoozeh Dumas

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

— Anthony Horowitz

“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum