Writer Quotes · Page 478

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

— Patrick Rothfuss

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

— Tony Hillerman

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

— Allison Williams

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

— Jodi Picoult

“There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it. . .”

— Mark Twain Following the Equator

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for…

— J. M. Ledgard

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly,…

— E. B. White

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself…

— Eleanor Catton

“Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them.…

— M.Z.Riffi

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the…

— Anna Carey

We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been…

— Jose Saramago

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out…

— Anonymous

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale…

— Mohsin Hamid

Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such…

— Kyle Minor

What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked…

— Catherine Brady

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new…

— Tom Peters

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that,…

— Alberto Manguel

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

— James Buckley

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

“Impossibly (A Dante’s Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters.”

— Anonymous

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

— Gerald Clarke

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

— Moshe Safdie

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand