Writer Quotes · Page 642

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

— Patricia Duncker

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

— Anita Bryant

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

— Amitava Kumar

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

— Donna Pomona

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl

“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.”

— Susie Smith

I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science.

— Liu Cixin

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

— John Cheever

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

— John Irving

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial…

— Thomas Browne

“Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.”

— Susan Coolidge

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I…

— Joshua Slocum

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out…

— Herbert Gold

“Even though I know my own name (barely), I still sometimes write my name wrong. Usually it only happens when I write…

— Jarod Kintz

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

— Louisa May Alcott

“At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look…

— Annie Dillard (Author

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence…

— Jim Bakker

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.…

— Morgan Parker

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted…

— Joss Whedon

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad…

— David Ogilvy

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.…

— Alan Moore

“Stephenson summarizes his communication policy as follows: Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration are politely requested not to do so,…

— Cal Newport

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there…

— Terry Pratchett

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.'

— Steven Rinella

“If you are able to write, you ''don't need'' to Muse!”

— Ruzgar

“Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

— Alan Russell

“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.”

— Joseph Brodsky

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

— David Byrne

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.”

— Carol Lynch Williams

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

— Quentin Tarantino

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

— Jules Renard

“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Robert Frost

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got…

— Lou Doillon

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic…

— Isabel Allende

“You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just…

— Candace Knoebel

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test…

— Kate DiCamillo