Writer Quotes · Page 470

“I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

— Stef Penney

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

— Lisa Gardner

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

“I am full of madness, i can't hide my fire I burn for the things i love, my soul will never retire.”

— Nikki Rowe

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”

— David Foster Wallace

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

— Harrison Barnes

“[Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and…

— Jessica Lave

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

— Keith Gessen

In 'Move to Heaven,' my character tries to listen and find out stories about the deceased and convey them to their families.

— Lee Je-hoon

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing…

— Suman Pokhrel

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of…

— The D.O.C

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel…

— Stephen King

I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think…

— David Nicholls

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

— Lois Lowry

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think…

— Nadine Gordimer

Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books…

— Anita Silvey

It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment.…

— James Salter

I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a…

— Jill Magid

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,…

— Andrew Carnegie

“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and…

— Joshua Foer

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as…

— John Updike

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

— Jasper Fforde

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

— Luc de Clapiers

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

— Tom Robbins

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Vale is allowed to write about anything he wants. Pater”

— Leta Blake

I started writing because I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

— Mike O'Malley

“I was born a dribbler, became a reader, now I write.”

— Joseph Hagen

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

— Mason Cooley

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

— Tennessee Williams

“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.”

— Rebecca Raisin

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

— Brent Faiyaz

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).”

— Elizabeth Bard

“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.”

— Anna Quindlen