Writer Quotes · Page 534

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

— Sabaa Tahir

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

— Henry Rollins

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

— Julia Cameron

Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

— Chris Humphreys

I strongly believe that writing brings out one's thoughts and expressions well.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

— Sara Paretsky

“Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

— James Arthur

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening.…

— Stephen McCauley

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I…

— Adam Gopnik

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week,…

— Jane Fonda

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

— Michael Connelly

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the…

— Frank Miller

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work…

— John C. Maxwell

“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the…

— Nicola Haken

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life…

— Ciaran Hinds

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are…

— Ali Smith

“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even…

— Alice W. Flaherty

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You…

— Anonymous

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that…

— Fannie Hurst

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"…

— Ann Patchett

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In…

— Winston Churchill

The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one…

— Celeste Ng

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

— Alan Bennett

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

— Teresa Mummert

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

— George R. R. Martin

I want to tell stories that I feel for, and I don't want to be a sell-out.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

“Never trust a writer. They are too good at making Stories.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

MOVE ON. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book - just turn the pages. :)

— Anonymous

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

— A. A. Gill

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

— Horace Mann

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

— Ambrose Bierce

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

“Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

— John Braine

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

— Gerald Brenan

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

— Roland Barthes