Writer Quotes · Page 599

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

— Caroline B. Cooney

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

— Joshua Mohr

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

— Gabrielle Zevin

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

— Claire Messud

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

— Mason Cooley

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

— Jeremy Corbyn

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

— Colson Whitehead

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is…

— James Salter

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always…

— Jodi Picoult

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

— Lisa Joy

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,…

— Alexander Pope

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The…

— Sophie Hannah

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either…

— Alice Munro

“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first…

— Sherman Alexie

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in…

— Walt Whitman

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas…

— Libba Bray

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of…

— Ann Voskamp

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is…

— Hermann Hesse

“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit…

— Henry Miller

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of whichhe is not always mastersomething that at times…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

— Kali Uchis

I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

— Ilhan Omar

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

— Meg Cabot

“I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.”

— Gina Sheridan

I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

— Jonathan Pryce

She is a book... but don't force her to open every chapter of her book...

— Ronakpanchalrr

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”

— Douglas Adams

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

— Jon Spaihts

“What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?”

— Cory Doctorow

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

— Alex Pettyfer

“But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.”

— Isabel Huggan

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

— Jack Kerouac