Writer Quotes · Page 550

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to.

— Mike Noonan

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

— Boy George

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

— Tracy Kidder

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

— Isabel Allende

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

— Ishmael Reed

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

— David Schwimmer

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

— Neil Gaiman

“I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve…

— Steven Erikson

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things…

— Natalie Goldberg

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all…

— Colum McCann

“Losing myself for hours in worlds that only existed in the confines of a paper jacket was my only escape from a…

— Winter Renshaw

“A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.” - Kirkus Reviews”

— Milena Banks

“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that…

— Moriah Pearson

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,…

— Siri Hustvedt

O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy…

— Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating…

— Etgar Keret

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in…

— Helene Hanff

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their…

— Nicole Holofcener

I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I…

— Terry Pratchett

...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day,…

— Russell T Davies

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

— Orlando Bloom

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

— Ernest Hemingway

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

— John Geddes

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

— Anonymous

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

— Francis Keppel

“(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.”

— Jincy Willett

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

“I write, therefore i am, and therefore do not need other's writing!”

— Rebecca Jane

“Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.”

— Cheryl Koevoet

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

— Anonymous

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

— Elizabeth George

“There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.”

— Mary Lou Kirwin

“A book is a friend that gives all it has in return asks for nothing except its safety”

— Bharath Swaminathan

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

— Richard Hughes