Writer Quotes · Page 542

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

— Thomas Mann

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

— Glenn Ligon

“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.”

— Ellie Presner

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

— Sophie Rundle

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

— Mary Ann Hoberman

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

— Daniel Pennac

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

— Judith Rossner

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

— Vikas Swarup

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to…

— Monica Ali

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the…

— Gail Caldwell

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is…

— Jules Verne

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time…

— Dale Peck

I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings…

— Lisa Loeb

I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have…

— Ellie Goulding

“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a…

— Tony Kushner

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer.…

— Isaac Asimov

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;…

— Ernest Hemingway

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Wimbledon fortnight is always a testing time for the home worker. I spend most of it on the phone to my writing…

— Jesse Armstrong

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that.…

— Joseph Boyden

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me…

— Madonna Ciccone

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

— Leo Strauss

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

— Tori Amos

“I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.”

— Angeline Trevena

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

— Anne Fadiman

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

— Jenna Blum

“When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.”

— Meg Rosoff

“Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!”

— Jen Selinsky

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

— Irwin Shaw

I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.

— Maggie Rogers

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

— Steven Moffat

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

— Rebecca Solnit

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

— Dan Chaon

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

— Madelaine Petsch

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

— Matthew Bourne

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

— Mick Foley