Writer Quotes · Page 607

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

— Juliana Hatfield

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

— Craig Finn

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

— Jonathan Tropper

“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”

— Amy Rogers

“We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.”

— Antoinette Ingoldsby

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

— Francine Prose

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all…

— Gore Vidal

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear…

— Lenny Kravitz

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when…

— Astrid Lindgren

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that…

— Lucy Calkins

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the…

— Gavin Lyall

“As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love…

— Bookends Jane Green

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

— Sarra Manning

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some…

— Charlie Huston

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of…

— Lorde

“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were…

— Darryl Pinckney

“Manto's take on Ismat: "Ismat’s pen and tongue both run fast. When she starts writing, her ideas race ahead and the words…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than…

— Ernest Hemingway

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just…

— Steve Toltz

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few…

— Frank Pierson

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each…

— Julie Andrews

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

— Morgan Freeman

“Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.”

— Laurence Gane

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

“I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look.”

— Manny Rayner

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.”

— Stephanie Lennox

“Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!”

— Carmela Dutra

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

— John Green

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

— Emily Dickinson

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

— Emma Roberts

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

— Marie Lu