Writer Quotes · Page 531

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

— Tilda Swinton

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

— Ben Marcus

“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.”

— Flannery O'Connor

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

— Gertrude Stein

I'm tired of writing exams for marks. I want to start writing books for sell.

— Terry Mark

“Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them”

— morgan

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply…

— Anthony Browne

It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods':…

— Tana French

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new…

— Steve Berry

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

— Bette Greene

If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.

— Elif Safak

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather…

— Lily King

“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he…

— Charlie Lovett

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong…

— Sai Marie Johnson

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still…

— Madeleine L'Engle

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so…

— Brit Marling

(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all…

— Therese of Lisieux

“Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

— Lee Iacocca

“It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Writing books can be a tricky business when you have no fucking idea what you’re doing.”

— Nathan Rabin

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

— Stephen King

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

— Quintin Jardine

“I’m a storyteller. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller.”

— Jim Korkis

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

— Nick McDonell

“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”

— Julian Darius

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

— Mickey Spillane

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

— Ray Bradbury

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

— Michael De Luca

I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books.

— Finn Wolfhard

“a freindship without books is like a isnt a freinship at all”

— Gemini Adams

My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party.

— Michael Rosen