Writer Quotes · Page 482

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”

— William Faulkner

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

— Jim Rash

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

— Kingsley Amis

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

— robert m drake

“Virginia Wolf once said, “I ransack libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.”

— Lili Valente

“to read or not to read... that is a silly question”

— Harlequin

“The next time you struggle with a sentence, rewrite it by placing subject and verb at the beginning. 5.”

— Roy Peter Clark

I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.

— Jim Tressel

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”

— Aldous Huxley

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the…

— Gary Shteyngart

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes…

— Manuel Puig

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to…

— Philip Roth

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

— Ioan Gruffudd

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what…

— Abi Morgan

“I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all…

— Nicholas Carr

The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death…

— Philip Kitcher

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of…

— Jim Butcher

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer…

— John Dos Passos

“My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that…

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.…

— Chuck Wendig

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.…

— Susan Hill

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But…

— Nick Hornby

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

— Penn Jillette

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

— A. Edward Newton

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

— Russell Crowe

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

— David Bryan

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

“At its loftiest, a library's goal is to keep as many minds as possible in the game ...”

— Josh Hanagarne

“Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.”

— Joël Dicker

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

— Wallace Shawn

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

— Antonia Fraser

“Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.”

— Edenia Archuleta

“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.”

— Neil Leckman

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,

— Jack Kerouac

“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”

— John Wilmot

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

— Robert Sternberg