Writer Quotes · Page 480

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron

“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

— John Lanchester

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

— Terry Pratchett

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about…

— Kary Mullis

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

— Salman Rushdie

“I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's…

— Anne Frank

“To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.”

— Jarod Kintz

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind…

— Herman Koch

“My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and…

— Kristin Cashore

“a book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet…

— Alec Hutson

I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like.…

— Cassandra Clare

“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and…

— Cormac Mccarthy

“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that…

— Lara Biyuts

“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the…

— Irving Howe

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome…

— Annie Proulx

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought…

— Philipp Meyer

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my…

— Marshall McLuhan

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

— Iris Murdoch

“Collecting data is easy; writing about data is hard.”

— Paul J. Silvia

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

— Gilles Deleuze

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

— Norm MacDonald

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

— Meg Rosoff

“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

— Betty MacDonald

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs