Writer Quotes · Page 570

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

— Mat Kearney

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

— Faith Ringgold

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

— Don Winslow

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

— Douglas Adams

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

— J.K. Rowling

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it…

— Louis L'Amour

“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those…

— richelle e. goodrich

“I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find…

— Peter Arpesella

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place…

— Sheila Kaye-Smith

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I…

— Amy Bloom

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times,…

— Hari Kunzru

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

— Rick Moody

“My book is a light read. Seriously, it probably weighs 3.33 ounces. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s an ebook.”

— Jarod Kintz

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was…

— Ann Patchett

“No writing is effortless. I’m not saying you can’t have a good day where the words just kind of flow, but even…

— Darynda Jones

I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly…

— Chuck Klosterman

Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy…

— Percival Everett

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life…

— Martin Amis

“If I’m asked what the next most important quality is for a novelist, that’s easy too: focus—the ability to concentrate all your…

— Haruki Murakami

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are…

— Douglas Adams

“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in…

— Faye Kellerman

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

— Bill Gates

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

— Alan Bennett

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

— Arthur Baer

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

— Kim Carnes

“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

— Farhan Akhtar

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”

— Anne Lamott

“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

— George William Curtis

“puzzling sections. Most of it was written by this Scribe named Mango”

— Cube Kid

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

— David Mitchell

“Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.”

— Robert Coles

How do people write an auto biography? I can barley remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

— Anonymous