Writer Quotes · Page 481

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

— Richard Russo

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber

If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.

— Ruskin Bond

“Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.”

— Elizabeth Graver

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

— Michel Faber

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

— Mo Willems

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a…

— Susannah Cahalan

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where…

— George Packer

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say…

— Paulo Coelho

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

— Leigh Newman

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic…

— Holbrook Jackson

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write.…

— Phil Collins

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool…

— Kevin Sampsell

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other…

— Jack London

“I’m one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then…

— Christina Baker Kline

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable…

— Anonymous

I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out…

— How to Dress Well

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.…

— Maya Angelou

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

— Eugene Field

“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.”

— Dodong Charing

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

— Steve Maraboli

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

— Nicholas Sparks

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

— Miles Teller

“When I write my only difficulty is to be able to stop”

— MBarreto Condado

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

— Alicia Keys

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

There are books that inspired me the first time round and re-reading them just reignites that.

— Edith Bowman

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

— Jeet Thayil

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo