Writer Quotes · Page 475

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

— Kate Morton

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

— Michael Dirda

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

— Eudora Welty

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

— Benjamin Carson

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and…

— Matt Letscher

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

— Ezra Pound

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

— Doris Lessing

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late…

— Robert Caro

“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.”

— Victor Hugo

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be…

— Beverly Cleary

“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you.…

— Garry Crystal

When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it…

— Brian Posehn

The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting…

— Brunonia Barry

“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally…

— Milan Kundera

“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book…

— Joe Queenan

“Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott…

— Candace Bushnell

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny…

— Greta Gerwig

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

— Maurice Sendak

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.

— Colson Whitehead

“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”

— Martin Myers

“People are the same except for the books they read and the people they meet”

— Charlie Jones

I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

— Sam Hunt

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”

— Criss Jami

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw”

— Jan Karon

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals