Writer Quotes · Page 546

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

— Jenny Zhang

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

— Joan Bauer

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

— Rik Mayall

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

— Katie Price

Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Great escape read, yet always come back again and again”

— Clive Cussler

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write…

— Andre Dubus

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

— Alex Haley

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel

When 'If God Was a Banker' became a success, it changed my entire perspective. I wanted to write more and wanted to…

— Ravi Subramanian

My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

— David Grann

Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.

— Jennifer Warnes

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice…

— Richard Price

My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out…

— Rupi Kaur

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect…

— Margaret Atwood

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life…

— Aaron Sorkin

“In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was…

— Maynah Lewis

Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about…

— Judith Barrington

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we…

— William Golding

Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and…

— Elizabeth Strout

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is…

— E. L. Doctorow

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

— George Orwell

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

— Isabel Allende

“I hide away in my room to see Just what stories will come to me.”

— P.B. McIlrath

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

“There’s just something about reading a story that makes me happier than anything else in the world.”

— Vanessa Booke

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

— C.P. Cavafy

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

“Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.”

— Jodi Picoult

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

— Jennifer Egan

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

— R. A. Salvatore

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith

“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.”

— Travis McDade