Writer Quotes · Page 50

“There’s always books. And the wind through trees.”

— Anna Jae

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

— Mason Cooley

I'm a writer and I've had some success.

— Carole Radziwill

“I write because...it's better than meds!!!!!”

— Elizabeth Anne Porter

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

— Julia Cameron

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

“If you can't talk about, write about it!”

— Tracey Reddick

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

— Joshua Ferris

“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work”

— Larry Brown

“Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you’re not willing to burn what doesn’t work.”

— Jason E. Hodges

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:”

— J.A. Pak

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

— David Nicholls

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

— Kevin J. Anderson

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at…

— Mike Birbiglia

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and…

— Leonard Bishop

Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can…

— Bob Shacochis

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal…

— Mark Helprin

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think…

— Colum McCann

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit…

— Charles Bukowski

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

— David Grann

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them…

— Ruth Ozeki

Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It…

— Ken Hom

I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and…

— Umberto Eco

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside…

— Jane Smiley

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from…

— Ray Bradbury

I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you…

— Debra Dean

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life…

— Storm Jameson

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing…

— Jane Hirshfield

“A reader lives a thousand lives.”

— George R.R. Martin

One must always be careful of books,

— Cassandra Clare

“Only write if you can't not.”

— Stephen Bergman

“Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.”

— Brenda B. Taylor

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

— Grace Paley

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

— David Remnick

You gotta know when its time to turn the page.

— Anonymous

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

— Joyce Carol Oates