Writer Quotes · Page 487

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

— Paul Haggis

“Writing about your worries before a test or presentation prevents choking.”

— Sian Beilock

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”

— Zaman Ali

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

— Erica Brown

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

Books are for only those who can live without television.

— Vikrant Parsai

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

“I'm a writer. I write because I don't talk so good.”

— Lionel Fisher

“It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not…

— Melvyn Bragg

“I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light…

— Robin Sloan

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

— Alice Mattison

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring…

— Philip Kitcher

No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so…

— Natasha Lyonne

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I…

— Lucinda Williams

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

— Dorothy Garlock

“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every…

— Patience Strong

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the…

— Richard Louv

“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom…

— Antonio Muñoz Molina

“I know that there will always be someone who won't get the stories, or who won't like them. You cannot please everyone,…

— Jennifer Varnadore

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only…

— Anais Nin

“But don’t you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf,…

— Kristin Kladstrup

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies…

— Dean Koontz

“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The…

— Anna Quindlen

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

— Tyler Hilton

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

— Garrison Keillor

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.”

— Shahla Khan

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

— Horace Walpole

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

— Jeff VanderMeer

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.”

— Jason Ellis

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

— Tom Barbash

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

— Tori Spelling

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

— Richard Peck

Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.

— SZA

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak