Writer Quotes · Page 508

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

— Jim Lee

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave…

— Ray Bradbury

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for,…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to…

— Philippa Gregory

“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In…

— Jacques Poulin

The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.…

— Jason Reynolds

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as…

— Jeanette Winterson

I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait…

— Amy Hempel

When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't…

— Toni Morrison

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy…

— Jenni Rivera

“The serious writer must take serious vows…a vow of silence, except through his work. A vow of consistency, sticking with writing to…

— L.E. Sissman

“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and…

— Christopher Beha

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that…

— Miriam Toews

“It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that…

— Kenneth Clark

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

— Eudora Welty

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

— Simon Schama

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

— Bob Seger

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN”

— Hal Elrod

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

— Criss Jami

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o' the people.

— Tech N9ne

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

— Sylvia Day

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

— Randy Pausch

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!”

— Traci Wilcox