Writer Quotes · Page 637

It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

— Catherine Brady

“Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.”

— M. Kirin

“‎"A writer has to talk about the things that go untalked about”

— Miguel Syjuco

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

— Margaret Atwood

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

— Rebecca Hall

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

— Angie Harmon

There is a big difference between the books that men make and the book that makes men.

— Anonymous

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather…

— Charles Palliser

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

— John Green

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They…

— Michael Chabon

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the…

— Manisha Koirala

“I recently enjoyed Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh—both dark, strange, a bit uncomfortable,…

— Roxane Gay

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

— Italo Calvino

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,…

— Janette Turner Hospital

If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth…

— Jason Reynolds

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters…

— Peter Carey

Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all…

— Sara Gruen

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the…

— Will Self

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul…

— Mary MacLane

“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read…

— Winston S. Churchill

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like…

— D. H. Lawrence

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and…

— Chris Claremont

I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any…

— Barry Hannah

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

The fate of the pen, go on, when I am tired to be someone other pen will hold

— Mak_786

“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

— William Shakespeare

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

“writing, is not just poring the words. but how to creates feel's voice with a soul, is a paramount.”

— ikke achmad

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

— John Steinbeck

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

— George Armstrong Custer

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

— Jackee Harry

People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.

— Mick Jones

“no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

— Salman Rushdie

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

— Henri Nouwen

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

— Jack Canfield

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

— Emma Roberts

“When I write, I feel like an armless legless man witha crayon in his mouth”

— Vonnegut, Kurt