Writer Quotes · Page 510

“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3”

— Tara Ahrendt

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

— Eloisa James

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

— Jean Smart

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part…

— Charles Clarke

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s…

— Judith Guest

Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw…

— Maria Konnikova

“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Did you ever read The Cat's Revenge , by Claude Balls? Did you ever read The Passionate Russian , by E. Nawdor…

— John O'Hara

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to…

— Umberto Eco

Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

— David Droga

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

— Andrea Hirata

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she…

— Loretta H. Marion

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to…

— Ray Bradbury

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does…

— Lucy Larcom

“I pick up a book from the stack Gabby has made, and I start to read. The book is slow to start,…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of…

— Sara Sheridan

I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m…

— Dorianne Laux

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that…

— Robert Bringhurst

“I noticed a taxi stop across the street to let out a girl who ran up the steps of the Forty-second Street…

— Truman Capote

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading…

— Isaac

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”

— Oliver Markus

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

— Harlan Coben

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.”

— Alain de Botton