Writer Quotes · Page 501

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright”

— Anonymous

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

— Lord Acton

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

— Danny Huston

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

— Jon Scieszka

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

“A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.”

— Jesenia Sanabia

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of…

— Pliny the Younger

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

— Ronny Chieng

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all…

— Eudora Welty

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk…

— James N. Frey

People that don't write, whatever it is, they just assume you sit down and it magically pours out like Amaedus, and it's…

— Bear McCreary

I learn that life is a book, every day is a new page, every month is a new chapter and every year…

— Enhance Dreams

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it…

— Joe Satriani

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.

— Erik Larson

“Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and…

— Fred Arroyo

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying…

— Tad Williams

“I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be…

— Tom Robbins

“Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some…

— L.L. Barkat

Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by…

— Ernest Cline

“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and…

— Barry Hughart

“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as…

— Ross King

“She is too fond of books and it has addled her mind.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

— George Bancroft

“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”

— Lettie Prell

“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it”

— Spike Milligan

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

— Chuck Eddy

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

— D. H. Lawrence

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

— Ernest Dimnet

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes

“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.”

— James F. Amos

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

— Michael Hyatt

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

— Stephen Chbosky

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano