Writer Quotes · Page 463

“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.”

— P.D. James

“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.”

— Anonymous

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

— Henry Rollins

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

— Peter Handke

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.”

— Peggy Toney Horton

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

— Joshua Mohr

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

— Stephen King

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

— Georgia Toffolo

“Writers searching for their voice: Whatever you're afraid to say, whatever burns inside you, say it with conviction. You don't need a…

— Gregor Collins

“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind…

— C.S. Lewis

“Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them.…

— Andrew Rilstone

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out…

— Chris Claremont

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about…

— Judy Blume

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists…

— George Pelecanos

I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like,…

— Nico Tortorella

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a…

— Gene Wilder

[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light…

— Rebecca Serle

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious…

— Andrei Codrescu

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never…

— Cassandra Clare

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You…

— Garrison Keillor

“I read more than Mandy Lethbridge, and Im faster at it too.”

— Daniel Davis

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.

— Alice Walker

“More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

— Noah Cyrus

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

— Anonymous

“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man”

— Mark Twain

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

— Rumaan Alam

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

— Norton Juster

“Bachelor visits library, books wife (nonfiction). --Michael Perry”

— SMITH Magazine

“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”

— Róbert Gál

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

— Clint Smith

“Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.”

— Gary Corby

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write”

— Munia Khan