Writer Quotes · Page 594

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

— Ruth Ozeki

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

— May Sarton

“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.”

— Zadie Smith

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

— Marcus Buckingham

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

“An author's ultimate reward is expanding mankind's understanding of our world.”

— Richard Mathews

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

— Sylvia Day

“I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.”

— Arzum Uzun

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how…

— Deb Caletti

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

— Don Marquis

“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for…

— Ne-Yo

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…

— Isabel Allende

“Want to write? Read. Want to write well? Read 3000 pages, and write 1000. At the end, you will be fluent in…

— Richard Wyndbourne

My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to…

— William Golding

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and…

— Maggie Nelson

We all live on so many different levels and understandably present just a small portion of ourselves in most of our everyday…

— Elizabeth Strout

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets…

— Ali Liebegott

“I've never written a book, except my first, without at some point considering that I might die before it was completed. This…

— Julian Barnes

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…

— Rita Dove

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

— John Dufresne

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

— William Zinsser

“The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen.”

— Samuel Paterson

“Writing is dream we must know the correct words to fulfill it.”

— Danish Sayanee

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

— A. A. Milne

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

— Macaulay Culkin

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

— John Irving

“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.”

— Don Roff

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

— Tom Robbins

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

— J. K. Rowling

I really only trust my own feelings when I am writing something.

— Simon Amstell

Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.

— Dusty Redmon

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

— Pablo Neruda

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”

— Gail Honeyman