Writer Quotes · Page 612

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

— Walter Smith

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.

— Stephan James

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

— Donald Glover

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

— Amy Bloom

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

— Alan Bennett

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once…

— August Wilson

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

— Kate DiCamillo

“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.”

— Kirstie Collins Brote

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with…

— Maurice Blanchot

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that…

— Andrea Dworkin

“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.”

— Fernando Pessoa

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any…

— Ben Schwartz

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it…

— Claressa Shields

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys…

— Anonymous

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of…

— J. D. Vance

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to…

— Jodi Picoult

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in…

— Jonah Hill

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters…

— Glen Hirshberg

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

— Agatha Christie

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

— Michael Connelly

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.

— Rakim

“For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.”

— Rowan K. Lake Jr

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

— Richard Brautigan

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

“I do suffer from an associative malady that permits me to justify acquiring almost every book.”

— Henry Hitchens (Browse

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

— Brandon Sanderson

You'd better stop readin' and writin' and start hittin' !

— Mickey Rivers

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

— Horace

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

— Kevin Smith

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

— Samuel Johnson

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan