Writer Quotes · Page 514

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

— Ken Kesey

“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

— George Saunders

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an…

— Peter Jackson

“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little…

— Robin Sloan

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and…

— Rick Moody

“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people…

— Terry Pratchett

“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,…

— Charlotte Bronte

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader.

— Ravi Subramanian

When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.

— Steven Berkoff

“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or…

— William Warburton

“That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever…

— Dave Eggers

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience…

— Ariel Gore

“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need…

— Shawn Coyne

“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision…

— Eudora Welty

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to…

— Terry Goodkind

“I’m reading this fun Christian romance by an author who lives in Seattle named Lesley Ann McDaniel. It’s called Saving Grace and…

— Lynnette Bonner

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

— Ricky Gervais

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

— John Lennon

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron

“If investors only had to study the past, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Daniel Pecaut

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

— John Ashbery

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons