Writer Quotes · Page 524

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own.”

— Kiera Cass

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

— Joe Haldeman

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

— Jackie French

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of…

— Robert Penn Warren

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

— Tom Robinson

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking…

— Eartha Kitt

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being…

— Iain Banks

“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is]…

— Psalms 45 1

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there…

— Neil Gaiman

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a…

— Rudyard Kipling

You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out…

— Marion Dane Bauer

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow…

— David Cronenberg

“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch…

— Yann Martel

I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to…

— Steven Rinella

“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you…

— Neil Gaiman

Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's…

— Lesley M. M. Blume

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

— Neil Gaiman

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~”

— Darke Conteur

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

— Algis Budrys

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

— James Balog

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

— Ellen Bass

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

— James Van Praagh

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

— Jim Rash