Writer Quotes · Page 600

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I'm still looking for books about them, as well as I am used to feed food every day.”

— Pet Torres

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

— Jill Scott

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

— Angus Wilson

I read constantly, but I don't read non-religious stuff. I don't have the time.

— Anita Bryant

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

— China Mieville

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an…

— Kristina McMorris

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the…

— Brit Marling

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of…

— Matt Haig

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger…

— Albert Camus

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like…

— Brendon Urie

“Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at…

— Charles R. Hall

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if…

— Sharon Olds

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the…

— Theodore Bikel

Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing…

— Laura Miller

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard…

— Kate Atkinson

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you…

— Anne Rice

“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never…

— Haruki Murakami

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice…

— Susan Orlean

“There is nothing better than being able to swim in a pool of knowledge so deep it forces ignorance to be uncomfortable…

— Kaizen Love

We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know…

— George W. Bush

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

— William Zinsser

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

— Ray Bradbury

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

— Anais Nin

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

— John Cotton Dana

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

— Len Wein

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

— Neal Asher

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

“My books are like marmite, you either love them or you hate them!!”

— Laurie Bowler

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

— Sonam Kapoor

“There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— Old Smell of Books

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

— Anonymous

“My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.”

— Nicholaa Spencer