Writer Quotes · Page 617

“Writer's block doesn't exist...lack of imagination does.”

— Cyrese Covelli

“As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.”

— Mindy Kaling

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

— Hannibal Buress

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.”

— Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

— John Scalzi

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

— Bridgit Mendler

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

— Eric Hill

I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that…

— Tara Westover

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

— John Cowper Powys

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of…

— Amy Bloom

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his…

— Roald Dahl

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced…

— Robert Darnton

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon…

— William S. Burroughs

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good…

— Og Mandino

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together…

— Susan Minot

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer,…

— Brian K. Vaughan

My writing partner and I usually write separately, because if we write together we are liable to go a little nuts. The…

— Jesse Armstrong

I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

“The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of…

— George Saunders

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

— Anonymous

It is an interesting process to revisit a previously essayed role and hit new notes and dimensions.

— Arjun Mathur

“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

— Ray Bradbury

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

— Kathryn Stockett

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

— Ray Bradbury

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

— Anonymous

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

— Margaret Mitchell

I was afraid that not even Merlin the Enchanter could transform me into a writer.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.”

— Edith Schaeffer

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

— Matthew Specktor

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

— Kirsten Vangsness

People can write you off, but life is about what you make it.

— Geno Smith

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

— William Devane

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890