Writer Quotes · Page 628

“Oh, gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book!”

— Anonymous

“It's your writing you guys. Follow it wherever it takes you. All you need to do is tell your truth.”

— M. Molly Backes

“You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there”

— Mustafa Saifuddin

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

— Philip Pullman

“If you aren’t affected somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren’t reading the right book.”

— Anna Todd

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

— Lev Grossman

“You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.”

— Jay McLean

Thanks!It's not a long book but it's taken a year to write. It's fnially [read: FINALLY!!! YAYAYAYAY!] feeling ready for my editors!…

— Auth

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own…

— Kristy Swanson

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to…

— Lynda Barry

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.…

— Jon Stewart

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you…

— Don Winslow

“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the…

— Jennifer Probst

“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of…

— John Bright

“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life,perhaps even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day,…

— Jonathan Haidt

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book…

— Paul Lynch

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to…

— B A Billingsly

Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It…

— Ken Hom

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

— Ray Bradbury

“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was…

— Richard Wright

“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the…

— Trevor Cole

“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

“Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text”

— Paul J. Silvia

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

— Ezra Pound

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

— Leo Sayer

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

— Laurell K. Hamilton

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

— David Brin

“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.”

— Bill Willingham

“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”

— Gilbert Highet

When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.

— Emil Ferris

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Rachel, on the other hand, always had her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

— Mike Wells

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis