Writer Quotes · Page 539

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

— Mitski

“It's very difficult to train a good editor," the author said.”

— Val Edward Simone

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

— Corbin Bernsen

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

— Jeannette Walls

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

— Charles Bukowski

“Sure. But if the book sucks, we’re re-evaluating the friendship.”

— Colleen Hoover

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

— Colum McCann

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

— John Piper

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

— Alain de Botton

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,…

— Blake Crouch

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it…

— David Sedaris

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

— Colson Whitehead

“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.”

— Nam Le

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions…

— Laura Hillenbrand

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important…

— Pico Iyer

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good…

— Anne Lamott

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are…

— Caitlin Moran

I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The most important sentence in a book is the first sentence. Everything follows from it. The first words have to stop the…

— Anonymous

It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as…

— Andrew Aydin

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but…

— T. Boone Pickens

One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]”

— Warren Zevon

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

— Lee Child

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

— Brad Thor

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

— Paulo Coelho

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

— Ian Rankin

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

— Wes Ball

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

— Vladimir Putin

“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.”

— James Cambias