Writer Quotes · Page 632

My head talks so much, it would be a sin not to write.

— Nicole Lunney

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Harry is much more conscientious than I am, and he's better at writing than I am.

— Paul Whitehouse

“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.”

— Himmilicious

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”

— Chloe Thurlow

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

— Karen Russell

“good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.”

— Nico J. Genes

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and…

— Jack Gantos

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted…

— Cassandra Clare

Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not…

— Lewis Thomas

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image…

— Niels Arden Oplev

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a…

— Herbert Gold

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification…

— Katie Kitamura

“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of…

— C.S. Lewis

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There was something about the possession of a book that was important to me. Owning it gave me proprietary rights on the…

— Georgia Bell

“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It…

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to…

— Paul Auster

I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family…

— Tom Robbins

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had…

— Edmund White

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the…

— Jason Isbell

Why Bother Reading Books? We Have EMINEM He Can Read a Whole Story In 4 Minutes.

— Anonymous

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

— Steve Lopez

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

— Charles Dickens

“I hope this story provokes you as much as it provoked me to write it.”

— Bill Myers

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

— Susan Sontag

“Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.”

— Buffy Andrews

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

— Audre Lorde

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

— Orson Scott Card

“Writers are those weird people that like to take off their skin in public.”

— Ksenia Anske

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

— Isaac Marion

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

— Jilly Cooper

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

— Douglas Adams