Writer Quotes · Page 484

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

— Dani Shapiro

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

— Joseph J. Ellis

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

“We don’t want to be stuck on the train with nothing to read.”

— Genevieve Cogman

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

— Nellie L. McClung

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal…

— Anonymous

“Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the book It doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are…

— 69rascal

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy…

— Emma Donoghue

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material…

— Thomas Carlyle

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not…

— T. S. Eliot

The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about…

— Mary McCarthy

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your…

— Julia Leigh

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how…

— C.S. Lewis

“Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription…

— Mary Balogh

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter…

— Paul Kane

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and…

— Jenny Colgan

“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark…

— Doris Betts

“a lot of young viewers, but I also have a lot of older viewers. This chapter is for my older fans—those of…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable…

— Jeff Kinney

“To be taught to write or to speak — but what is the use of speaking if you have nothing to say?…

— John Ruskin

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

— Meryl Streep

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.”

— Dennis Lehane

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

— Teju Cole

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham

I'm a writer through and through. I'll always write.

— Steven Rinella

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

— John Wieners

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

— Larry Wall

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

— John Irving

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

— Pete Hautman