Writer Quotes · Page 624

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

— David Cronenberg

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

— Mickey Kaus

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

— Francine Prose

“It is impossible to get rid of a book, once I take a look inside.”

— Eugenia O'Neal

“A true friend is like a good book, the inside is always better than the cover.”

— Anonymous

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

— Margaret Atwood

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

— Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In…

— Elif Shafak

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably…

— Larry Niven

“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it…

— Jenny Colgan

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in…

— Tom Robbins

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for…

— Liza Campbell

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a…

— Ashly Lorenzana

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality…

— Flannery O'Connor

“When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I…

— P.D. James

I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes…

— Arthur Bradford

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be…

— Earl Nightingale

“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction…

— Tim Powers

“WELCOME to my bookamabob! Buckle your cravat and prepare for have your whiskers quiver. My story of struggles, successes and sergei is…

— Aleksandr Orlov

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep…

— Douglas Adams

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book…

— James Gleick

Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through…

— Loren Eiseley

“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.”

— John Wyndham

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

— Paul Auster

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

— John Lubbock

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

— Daniel Clowes

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

“I only hold the pen while my mind does the writing”

— PJ Bayliss

One day people asked to me why are you read,learn so much I said just I feel my lov when I read…

— Suraj Ary

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

— Anthony Horowitz

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

— Sam Levinson

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

— Leigh Hunt

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

— Tom Stoppard

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

— Jack London

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

— Edward M. Lerner