Writer Quotes · Page 605

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

— Jason Katims

I am looking for content and story and 'Mr. & Mrs. Murarilal' has both.

— Satish Kaushik

It is until you are lost into reading you will never be found among true readers.

— Jumbo Obiesia Ukot

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

— Walter Jon Williams

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

— Miguel McKelvey

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

— Marina Tsvetaeva

“You look…happy,” Owen said as Nora stepped into the library. “Did you do something inappropriate?” “I’m not that happy,” Nora answered. He”

— Timandra Whitecastle

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you…

— Annie Dillard

“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to…

— Ray Bradbury

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that…

— Nell Freudenberger

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and…

— Nina Bawden

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and…

— Anonymous

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

— John Edgar Wideman

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope,…

— James Freeman Clarke

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be…

— Pearl S. Buck

'Quantum of Solace' was a bit of a different circumstance than a lot of my other films because you're stepping into a…

— Marc Forster

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a…

— Maurice Sendak

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go…

— Kurt Sutter

“And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it’s done well, and something of a mystery…

— Michael Korda

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon…

— Fay Weldon

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles…

— Aldous Huxley

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

— Harry Enfield

“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”

— Pliny

“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

— Deanna Vasquez

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

— Confucius

“I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

— Cynthia Weil

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

— Josh Billings

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“You know why I write? Because paper can't tell me to SHUT UP.”

— Ksenia Anske

“...and so it was that my wealth came to be measured in books”

— Colleen Plimpton