Writer Quotes · Page 532

“A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.”

— Italo Calvino

“In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.

— Om Malik

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

— Donalyn Miller

“Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

— Walker Percy

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.”

— Michael Carroll

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help…

— Vicki Baum

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

— Terrence McNally

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

— Anonymous

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like…

— Tama Janowitz

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself…

— Rian Johnson

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into…

— Ben Clymer

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

— Jonathan Lethem

“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his…

— Albert Camus

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had…

— Shana Abe

“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with…

— Salman Rushdie

“And, again, this story needs to be revised, is under revision as I type these words. The only way to write an…

— Jill Christman

I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are…

— Ben Fountain

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the…

— Salman Rushdie

“I scrubbed the filth from my keyboard, and placed a coffee coaster strategically on the desk. My schedule was relatively clear, and…

— Hannah Kent

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

— Sharon Van Etten

I write to release my emotions in ways verbal words cant

— Kaylyn

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

— Anthony Horowitz

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

— Emily Carr

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

— Earl King

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored

— Jim Rohn

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

— Min Jin Lee

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

— Wole Soyinka

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

— John Cariani

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

— David Lee Roth

“A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.”

— Ariel Levy

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

— Kesha

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

— Charles Kuralt

“if you think about it, reading is just looking at words”

— Cookiecrumb

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

— Ray Bradbury