Writer Quotes · Page 555

“Laurie welcomes ALL Reviews from readers, and will supply an e-book version of the books listed.”

— Laurie Bowler

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

— John Irving

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

— Galen Rowell

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

— Jerry Della Femina

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

— Winona Ryder

Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.

— Lionel Shriver

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

— James Avery

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books…

— Helen Dunmore

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary……

— Norman Mailer

For me, I just know I feel better when I stay consistent with my writing. Ten minutes a day, even. Sometimes it's…

— Gracie Abrams

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the…

— Roald Dahl

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first…

— Shannon Hale

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone…

— Lauren Mayberry

“Lemat's agent says to him: y duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one.…

— Henry Mosquera

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding…

— Patricia Briggs

“You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that…

— Mary-Jean Harris

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as…

— Terry Pratchett

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but…

— David Levithan

“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with…

— Evan Marshall

“Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There…

— Edith Wharton

“The name of the book was The Big Board. He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.”

— Malak El Halabi

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

— Kunal Khemu

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

— Pat Barker

“If you write what you love, that is success, is it not?”

— Leslie Soule

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

— Mabel Seeley

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

— Franz Kafka

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”

— Liz Braswell

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

— Slavoj Žižek

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius

— Eoin Colfer

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

— Rayne Hall

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

— Jewel

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

— Jennifer Weiner

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

— Isaac Watts