Writer Quotes · Page 519

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

— Christine Leunens

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

— Warren Zevon

“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.”

— David Diringer

“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.”

— Jaako J. Wallenius

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like…

— Orhan Pamuk

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I…

— Annie Dillard

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel…

— Paul G. Tremblay

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

— Charles Bock

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common…

— Gillian Alexy

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you…

— Elmore Leonard

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a…

— Uma Krishnaswami

I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That…

— Lev Grossman

I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing…

— Janet Burroway

“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As…

— Czeslaw Milosz

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in…

— Orhan Pamuk

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and…

— Agnes Repplier

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and…

— David Walliams

Doing readings is so gratifying that it makes any physical intensity worth it for me.

— Tyler Henry

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

— Andrew Lang

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Everything maybe pre-written but nothing is rewritten.

— Anonymous

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

— Tyler Cowen

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

— Heinrich Heine

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

— St Augustine

When I did the zero draft for Six of Crows,' it was a very organic process.

— Leigh Bardugo

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card