Writer Quotes · Page 580

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

— Kay Ryan

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

— Liza Campbell

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

“Dedicated to book lovers and book bloggers everywhere, those large and small.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

— George Stephen

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time…

— Maggie Rogers

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.

— Hope Solo

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

— Jodi Picoult

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face…

— Alasdair Gray

There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that…

— Jack Hemingway

I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot…

— Rick Riordan

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe…

— Archibald MacLeish

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are…

— Earl Sweatshirt

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world,…

— David Ignatius

“Every time I read a book, especially one that grabs my gus, there is another translucent layer added to what makes me,…

— Arlaina Tibensky

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings,…

— Susan Cain

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of…

— Lydia Millet

“Most journals are repositories of great swatches of abstraction and generalization and self-analysis and interpretation and all that bad stuff. Don’t do…

— Robert Olen Butler

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the…

— George Henry Lewes

“Poppy used to share the room with her older sister, and piles of he sister's outgrown clothes still remained spread out in…

— Holly Black

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And…

— Alice Munro

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our…

— Jean Baudrillard

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

— Adam Carolla

“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.”

— George Kohlman

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

— Tuppence Middleton

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

— David Strathairn

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

— James Schuyler

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

— Toni Cade Bambara

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

— Robert Graves

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

— Katharine Weber

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

“Whoever desire to learn, shall delight in reading.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

— Greg Olsen

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green