Writer Quotes · Page 563

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

— Matthew Reilly

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

— Irvine Welsh

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

— Dean Devlin

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

— Robert Ben Garant

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

— Matthew Warchus

“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.”

— John Hill Burton

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living…

— John Updike

What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read…

— David Shields

“Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author…

— Douglas Preston

“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single…

— Elizabeth Hunter

“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.”

— Victor J. Banis

I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'…

— David J. C. MacKay

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all…

— David Baldacci

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of…

— Janet Frame

Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not,…

— Robert Masello

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books,…

— Olaudah Equianom

My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,…

— Gustave Flaubert

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it…

— Mary J. Miller

It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

— Alanis Morissette

I guess you can tell as a writer I am not a purfektshionist.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Writing is like talking without anyone to interrupt you.”

— Carol Morgan

“The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.”

— Richelle Mead

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.”

— T.J. Mihaila

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

— Fay Weldon

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

— Lee Child

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

— Charles de Lint

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

— Rod Serling

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

— Toni Morrison

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

— Don McLean

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener