Writer Quotes · Page 499

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

— Paul Auster

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

— Igor Stravinsky

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

— Maya Angelou

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

— Nick Hornby

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

— John Green

“It was always the bookish ones you had to be worried about. They knew shit.”

— Linsey Hall

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

— Jason Diamond

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if…

— Hubert Selby Jr

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing…

— Grant Morrison

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

— Dan Brown

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use…

— Ted Rall

“Oh kindly books! Like true and trusted friends: What blessed cheer your presence with us lends. Whene'er we spend a pleasant hour…

— Maurine Hathaway

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might…

— Jennifer E. Smith

I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids…

— Josh Prince

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we…

— Janet Fitch

“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its…

— Gerald Martin

“Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a…

— Mark Moran

Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes…

— Michael Arrington

“But I loved the library simply because it was a library. I love libraries. I like reading, but I love libraries. Being…

— Emily Wing Smith

“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady…

— Ian Gregor

“Sometimes the books were arranged under signs, but sometimes they were just anywhere and everywhere. After I understood people better, I realized…

— Sam Savage

I am a writer. Books are my home and words are my friends.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

— Octavia E. Butler

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

— Kathy Najimy

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

— Ray Bradbury

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

— Vera Caspary

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

— Walter Dean Myers

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

— Tibor Fischer

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

— Stendhal

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

— Amish Tripathi

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki