Writer Quotes · Page 505

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

— Robin Sloan

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

— Sarah J. Maas

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

— Anais Nin

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

— Kelsey Grammer

“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.”

— Linda Lafferty

It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

— Brian Azzarello

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure…

— Laurie Foos

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

— Gloria Naylor

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so…

— Katherine Paterson

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways…

— Walter Kirn

“The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored -- treat it not like work, more as a…

— C.S. Lewis

“A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on…

— Neil Gaiman

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words…

— George Orwell

“Maybe it would be easier if we were allowed to yell? The public librarian has been typecast. We're supposed to whisper and…

— Annie Spence

“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above…

— Susanna Kearsley

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty…

— Joseph Howe

I don't really have a writing process. I don't write at all but, honestly, I feel like it's a modern-day writing because…

— Lil Baby

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black…

— Walter Dean Myers

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”

— John Aiken

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

— Janet Flanner

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines