Writer Quotes · Page 488

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

— Steve Buscemi

“Reading reverses the aging of the brain and keeps your brain healthy and young.”

— Rosalyn Noel

“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.”

— Anna Glazebrook

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”

— Alan Bradley

“I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like…

— Thurman P. Banks Jr

“The great author Ray Bradbury knew. He wrote about dark futures without knowledge, and he was quoted as saying, “Without libraries what…

— Angela Pepper

“Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging…

— Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write… The state of human life and the god or demon within. The…

— Tanith Lee

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

— Trent Reznor

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,…

— Jane Austen

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to…

— Norman Lock

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.…

— Ernest Hemingway

As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior…

— Sarah Weinman

“If you’re looking for other authors who’ll grab your attention and keep it, I’m happy to recommend the following: Blake Crouch’s Wayward…

— Andrew Peterson

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction…

— Kyle Kinane

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come…

— Taiye Selasi

Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a…

— Lauren Oliver

From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and…

— Emile Zola

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because…

— Mo Willems

“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

— Nick Tosches

“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.”

— Miranda A. Uyeh

A good book is like a good friend. Time spent together is never wasted.

— Bernajoy Vaal

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

— Mary Garden

“Help your child discover a new world, where magic can live on every page, BOOKS!”

— Steve Altier

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

— Tash Sultana