Writer Quotes · Page 439

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

— Elif Batuman

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

— Edmund White

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

— Rafael Yglesias

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

— Nalo Hopkinson

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

— David Sedaris

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

— John Donne

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

— Nora Ephron

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

— Jonah Lehrer

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now…

— Danielle Steel

“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like…

— Michael Ondaatje

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade…

— Nancy Mitford

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do…

— Karl Kraus

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and…

— Antony Beevor

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming…

— Roy Haynes

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention…

— Michael Hastings

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“The bookstore is a building, but it's not only the building. It is the books inside. People are not only their bodies.…

— Cath Crowley

Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling…

— Michael Rosen

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as…

— Tanith Lee

No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something…

— Nick Hornby

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

— Kris Allen

“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.”

— Nikki Rosen

“I just take a book with me everywhere. It's a habit.”

— Rory Gilmore

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

— Wallace Stevens

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

— Dylan Moran

“How and where authors connect with their readers will affect how and when readers buy.”

— Bernadette Baker-Baughman

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

— Jim Jarmusch

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

— Martina Cole

“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.”

— John Green

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

— Michelle Malkin

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

— Samuel Johnson

“Never loan a book. You might never get it back in the same condition that you loaned it.”

— Monique Gordon

“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.”

— Blanche E. C. Dugdale

“The moment I started reading, I was no longer in my bedroom, no longer sad, no longer even myself.”

— Katrina Leno