Writer Quotes · Page 493

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.”

— Mick Jagger

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

— Rod Serling

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“At that point only two things were clear to me: first, that the plot had to move readers as much as it…

— Antonio Garrido

“Many have failed to pen down their own scripts in preference to reading the summary of other people’s writings and subsequently running…

— Edgar Mangwende

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at…

— George Saunders

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not…

— Kimberly Peirce

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I…

— Suzanne Somers

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other…

— Hilton Als

“The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't…

— Patricia Hickman

“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library…

— Public Library Association

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen…

— Robin Hobb

I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.…

— Harvey Pekar

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write…

— T.C. Boyle

“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.…

— Roald Dahl

In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates…

— James Salter

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider…

— Jo Walton

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is…

— Laura Mullen

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”

— M. Kirin

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

— Jamila Woods

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

— Ernest Hemingway

“after a miles time, writing leads me to write lines, this made forgot my past.. and made me new...”

— Will's

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but dont close the book- just turn the page.

— U

“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be different.”

— Anonymous

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

— John Dufresne

Life has many different chapters for us...one bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book

— Mercy Pheona

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

— Paul S. Kemp

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

— Marian Keyes

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum

The day I fail to understand that day I will stop writing quotes

— Mak_786

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly