Writer Quotes · Page 460

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

— Mick Jones

I make it a point to visit bookstores at least once a week.

— Akshara Haasan

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

— Gza

You can't have a great university without a great library.

— Joe Paterno

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

— Anonymous

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being…

— John Boyne

Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible,…

— Marie Lu

“A kick-ass heroine to inspire us all, mixed with a fabulous cast of secondary characters and a plot that just won’t quit.…

— Kathleen Lawless

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that…

— John Stockton

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When…

— Brad Paisley

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than…

— Howard Jacobson

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,…

— Junot Diaz

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through…

— David McCord

“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively…

— Lev Grossman

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.…

— Graham Swift

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called…

— Tom Robbins

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good…

— Jonathan Kellerman

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing…

— Noah Hawley

“The categories that a reader brings to a reading, and the categories in which that reading itself is placed - the learned…

— Alberto Manguel

“Reading gives us a place to go when we have no where to go”

— Mason Cooley

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

— Jorja Smith

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

— Sarah Dessen

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

— Neil Gaiman

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

— Andrew Motion

“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.”

— Sarah Wynde

“All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.”

— Homer Hickam

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

— Johnny Hunt

“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.”

— Christopher Morley

“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).”

— J.M. Varner

“Hey, pretty book, why don’t you lie in my lap awhile?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

— Anonymous

“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

— Elfriede Jelinek

“Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

— Jim Harrison