Writer Quotes · Page 63

One can never have too many books.

— Reed Krakoff

I want to write a best-selling book.

— Diane Abbott

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

— Katherine Mansfield

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

— Carl Hiaasen

Even the best writer has to erase

— Spanish Proverb

“A writing stream is my tide of reason.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

— Andy Rooney

“Its not an idea unless you write it down”

— Ivan Sutherland

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

— Sandra Cisneros

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

— Ernest Hemingway

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

— Bono

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

— Adam Clymer

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

— Kate DiCamillo

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

— MO

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who…

— Lisa Joy

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep…

— Lauren Tarshis

“No better stress reliever than to sit down and write! Let your imagination take you to other places and another time!”

— Rosanne Bittner

I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation…

— Dominique Jackson

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed,…

— Michael Chabon

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

— Anthony Trollope

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never…

— Richard Flanagan

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking…

— Tryon Edwards

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.…

— Patricia Briggs

“This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot…

— Ray Bradbury

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“These days, it seems like you can't throw a fish in a bookstore without hitting a high-stakes love triangle--not that I recommend…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself…

— Robin McKinley

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“A book is a blossoming of hope.”

— Antonio D'alfonso

“I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.”

— A. Rosa

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

— Luanne Rice

“Oh to be home reading a book.”

— Janelle Mowery

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

— Dave Sim

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

— Katrina Kenison

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang

“Everything I Write is True, But So What?”

— Édouard Levé