Writer Quotes · Page 558

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

— Isabel Allende

“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.”

— Cynthia Hand

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

— William Saroyan

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

— Rebecca West

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

“the end of the book isn’t the last page, it’s the last day you think about what you read”

— Dave Campbell

“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.”

— Franz Kafka

“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of…

— David Smith

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

— Bret Anthony Johnston

“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting…

— Crissi Langwell

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

— Jackie French

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

— Sophie Dahl

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the…

— Penn Jillette

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type…

— Rian Johnson

“If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling,…

— Virginia Woolf

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the…

— Jeff Kinney

“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest…

— James W. Pennebaker

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…

— Lynne Truss

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected…

— Lorin Stein

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they…

— Aldous Huxley

“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

“We also wish to make it absolutely clear that Librarians should not attempt to use the Library to transport dinosaur eggs. And…

— Genevieve Cogman

My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost…

— Rick Yancey

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

— Khalil Gibran

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

— Gary Panter

“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.”

— Joyce Rachelle

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

— Audrey Hepburn

“My book isn't meant to be read all at once, but rather all in good time”

— Justin Bienvenue

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

— Rick Perlstein

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

— Wright Morris

“AMAZON bought Goodreads; monopoly isn't just a boardgame”

— Donnie Jochum

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Our job is to read things that are not yet on the page.

— Steve Jobs

“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.

— Andre Aciman

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. -Terry Pratchett”

— Anna Blondell

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar