Writer Quotes · Page 69

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I do enjoy working with writers.

— Neil Jordan

I read to make myself feel awake.

— George Saunders

Reading is a waking dream.

— Islam Elnady

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

— Ned Vizzini

Good writers touch life often.

— Ray Bradbury

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

Rereading, we find a new book.

— Mason Cooley

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

— Michael Pena

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

“GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.”

— Lynn Hunt

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.”

— Paula McLain

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

— Winston Churchill

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

— Fran Drescher

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value…

— Sally Rooney

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once…

— August Wilson

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

— Anonymous

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

— Kate DiCamillo

“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must…

— Alexander M. Zoltai

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he…

— Gabrielle Roy

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

— Marjorie Scardino

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into…

— Steven Saylor

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just…

— Victor LaValle

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature…

— Novalis

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .…

— Sandra Cisneros

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If…

— Neil Gaiman

I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy…

— James Rollins

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can…

— Chris Abani

“Writing is today 's currency for good ideas.”

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

“A good book appeals to what is best in us…”

— Scott Russell Sanders

No two persons ever read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson

I was inspired by self-help books.

— Rudy Ruettiger

I write out of my intellectual experience.

— Tom Stoppard

“Spent more time reading than living.”

— Teens Famous + Obscure

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

— Anonymous