Writer Quotes · Page 446

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

— Alexander Payne

“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.”

— Ian McEwan

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

— Harry Golden

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

— Lana Del Rey

“Write what you know and embroider the rest - Sue Cross”

— Sue Cross

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

“My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!”

— Hlovate

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“I’ve been writing for about eleven years. I went from elfish to elephantish, and in another eleven years I hope to be…

— Jarod Kintz

“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.”

— David Foster Wallace

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a…

— Josh Prince

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format…

— David Pogue

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which…

— Eric Bogosian

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing…

— Ryan North

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

— Brendan Gleeson

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was…

— David Lodge

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m…

— John Truby

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees…

— Hilary Mantel

“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark…

— Ann Patchett

“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that…

— Roger Kahn

“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or…

— D.A. Botta

“If you don’t like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.”

— Anonymous

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

— Truman Capote

“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.”

— John Steinbeck

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

— Anthony Bourdain

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“There is nothing better than a good read on a quiet morning!”

— Steve Altier

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

— Suzanne Collins

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

— Brandon Sanderson

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

— Anthony Minghella

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

— Enoch Powell

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

— Doris Lessing

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.”

— Chuck Wendig

“I will write about sadness,till the time i achieve my happiness.”

— sh sheeban

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

— Anthony Doerr