Writer Quotes · Page 457

“Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.”

— Terry Pratchett

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

— Voltaire

“The world is a great book...they who never stir from home read only a page.”

— St. Augustine

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

— Charlaine Harris

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

— Wilferd Peterson

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

— Padgett Powell

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

— Kevin Brockmeier

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to…

— Rokia Traore

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what…

— Will Leitch

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun…

— Nick Frost

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

— Prunella Scales

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You…

— Jess Walter

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside…

— James Frey

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable…

— Italo Calvino

“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money…

— M.V. Carey

Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and…

— Delphine de Vigan

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it…

— Anonymous

“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause…

— Kevin Emerson

There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.…

— George R. R. Martin

I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop…

— James Ponsoldt

“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and…

— Pierre Bayard

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

— Alberto Manguel

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

— Allison Pearson

I used to work in the video game industry before I became a full-time writer.

— Marie Lu

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

— William Zinsser

All the traveling means I'm constantly writing and testing new jokes.

— Josh Blue

“And she is the reader who browses the shelf and looks for new worlds but finds herself.”

— Laura Purdie Salas

“Don't talk to me about writing; you couldn't write "fuck" on a dusty Venetian blind.”

— Coral Browne

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

— Michael Ondaatje

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

— Junot Diaz

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

— Steven Erikson

I have kept a training diary to record my training plans and my feelings and emotions for a long time.

— Eliud Kipchoge

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

“What's the best part about writing a book? Finishing it.”

— Rick Riordan

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

— Ambrose Bierce

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

— Jose Saramago