Writer Quotes · Page 572

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

— Amy Chozick

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

— Heinrich Heine

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

— Dr. Seuss

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.”

— Leo Rosten

“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

— Cornelia Funke

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

— Anonymous

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

— Doris Lessing

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you…

— Rob Thurman

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things…

— Louis L'Amour

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only…

— Brian Lumley

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take…

— Amitava Kumar

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that.…

— Ray Bradbury

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

— Brian J. Smith

“You must always find a partner who can do a few mundane chores around the house so that you can relax in…

— Twinkle Khanna

“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to…

— Satinder Bhatti

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the…

— William Styron

Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a…

— Ray Bradbury

I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while…

— Maya Hawke

“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the…

— P.S. Baber

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my…

— Sasa Stanisic

Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying…

— Myriam Gurba

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody…

— Emma Donoghue

“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless”

— Katherine Rundell

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

— Paloma Faith

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

— William Hague

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

— John Irving

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.”

— Lewis Buzbee

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

— Bernie Taupin

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.”

— Carlos Bulosan

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

— John Gregory Dunne

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

— Ioan Gruffudd