Writer Quotes · Page 448

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

— Jonathan Tropper

“we traded Jonathan Kellerman and Kathy Reichs novels back and forth like . . .  well . . .  addicts.”

— Donna White Glaser

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

— Geddy Lee

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

— Bret Lott

“I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.”

— James D. Sass

I write first thing in the morning, about 360 days a year.

— James Patterson

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

— Sandra Cisneros

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

— Richard Morris

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is…

— Charles Stross

'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love…

— Howard Jacobson

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of…

— Leslie Charteris

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something…

— Tom Perrotta

“The whole point of BookShots is to give people lightning-fast reads that completely capture them for just a couple of hours in…

— Erin Knightley

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and…

— Janet Frame

“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

I think anyone who creates anything, whether it's yourself as a writer, anyone - when you finish something, it's gone from being…

— Darren Hayes

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its…

— Patrick Ness

“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A…

— Norman Mailer

“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your…

— Glen Cook

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know…

— David Small

“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired.…

— Charles Kowalski

“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in…

— Tim Winton

There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own…

— Mary Gaitskill

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

— Joel Dicker

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.”

— W.H. Auden

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

— Sloane Crosley

“Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.”

— Stephanie Morales

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

— Kurt Loder

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

— Lisa See

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

— Sylvia Plath

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

— Hunter S. Thompson

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

— Diane Setterfield

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

— Howard Jacobson

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

— Rick Riordan

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

— June Foray

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

— Iris Johansen