Writer Quotes · Page 598

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

— Jocko Willink

I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

— Milton Jones

“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.”

— robert m drake

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person

— Idk sorry

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

— John Steinbeck

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

— Don Paterson

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

— Jeff Baena

“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.”

— Andy Hollandbeck

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives…

— Andre Gide

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…

— David Foster Wallace

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much…

— Kate Christensen

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or…

— Langston Hughes

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people,…

— Brad Thor

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and…

— Felix Dennis

It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in…

— Chinua Achebe

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to…

— Samuel Johnson

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research…

— Irvine Welsh

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,…

— Ayelet Waldman

“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and…

— Donalyn Miller

I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's…

— Richard Ben Cramer

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and…

— Alice Munro

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

“A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.”

— Sydney 4363

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

— Mick Foley

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

— Aubrie Sellers

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

— Virginia Woolf

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

— Nikky Finney

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

— Daniel Pennac

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

— Lorin Stein

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

— Mary Roach

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

— John Krasinski

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

— Gail Carson Levine

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

— Salim Kumar

“These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards, too.”

— Margaret Atwood