Writer Quotes · Page 435

“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself”

— J.K. Rowling

“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Getting kissed by a needle and bleeding every time. The art of writing.

— Needa Muy

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert”

— Minnie Estelle Miller

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers

— Ryne Sandberg

“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“And of course, if it's a book and it's cheap, Mommy can't say no as easy.”

— Winnie M. Li

I think goodreads is the best place to look for books

— Jeff Kinney

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

— Gene Luen Yang

“their writing.  Park, D. et al., “The Role of Expressive Writing in Math Anxiety,’’ Journal of Experimental Psychology:”

— Anonymous

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How…

— Kate Atkinson

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is…

— Manuel Puig

“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into…

— Anthony Esolen

“I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I…

— Bella Andre

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

— Ben Fountain

“I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a…

— Stephen King

“If you take a book with you on a journey,’ Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,…

— Cornelia Funke

“For heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined…

— Alan Jacobs

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come…

— Edwidge Danticat

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I…

— Nicholas Sparks

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as…

— Jacques Barzun

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted…

— Cheryl Strayed

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write…

— Tess Gerritsen

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

— Louise Penny

“I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read.”

— Jo Grix

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

— Fiona Apple

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

— T. Scott McLeod

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

— Francine Pascal

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

— Isabel Allende

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

— Daphne du Maurier

“Authors. Even the sane one are nuts. - Da Vinci Code”

— Dan Brown

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

— Nora Gallagher

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

— Maya Angelou

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

— Oriana Fallaci

“The stuff in books made everyday life seem normal.”

— Anonymous

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

— Anonymous