Writer Quotes · Page 622

You can't write a story together if you're not on the same page.

— Anonymous

“Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.”

— Peter Straub (Author

“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was”

— Paul Kemprecos

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

— John Kennedy Toole

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

— Samuel Hynes

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

— Joss Stone

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

— Stephen King

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips”

— Rachel Caine

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

— Billy Bob Thornton

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

— Jesse Andrews

I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!

— Rebecca Serle

“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of…

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which…

— Gaston Bachelard

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a…

— Rebecca Serle

There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing…

— Robert Cormier

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel…

— Andre Dubus

“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to…

— Nancie Atwell

“If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it…

— Andrew Killeen

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the…

— Quentin Tarantino

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid…

— David Bowie

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.…

— Yann Martel

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

— Peter De Vries

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

— Italo Calvino

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

— John Updike

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

— Megan Boone

“Writing and breathing are two things that feel most natural for me.”

— Susan Stovall

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

— George Barr McCutcheon

“Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.”

— Anonymous

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

— Leslie Charteris

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

— George Shearing

“Write what you dream, shoot what you can afford, edit what you get.”

— Jason Beckwith

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

— Walker Evans

“Writing is the easiest thing in the world NOT to do.”

— Leigh Goodison

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

— Adriano Zumbo

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

— Shirley Hazzard