Writer Quotes · Page 610

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

— Dr. Seuss

“You are never the same person stepping out of a book, that you were when you first stepped in.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

“Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

— Edwin Boring

Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

— Heather Hart

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

— Anonymous

“I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and…

— Oprah Winfrey

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all…

— Shemar Moore

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

— Sharon Van Etten

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like…

— Jess Walter

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value…

— Sally Rooney

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford…

— Andrae Crouch

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

— George R. R. Martin

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked…

— Arianna Huffington

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people.…

— Fay Wray

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby…

— Annie Dillard

“Why did you take this job?” I ask. “It doesn’t make sense. You’re so young—” “It was an honor to be promoted,”…

— Victoria Schwab

“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to…

— Tessa Hadley

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

— Demetri Martin

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

— Emily Dickinson

“The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.”

— Tess Gerritsen

I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

— Amber Mark

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

— Yann Martel

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

— Mike Rich

“Magic Success Formula for Writing: Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and write!”

— Pam Zollman

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack.

— Edith Bowman

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

— Robert McKee

“Every writing project must be reduced before you start to write.”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

— Joshua Prager

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

— Robertson Davies

I've realised that my strength is writing around people.

— Lee Mack

I can write in my living room with my wife and kid around.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Think before you write, and write before you think again”

— Faiza Afliha