Books Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.”

— Charles Bukowski

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

— John Irving

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.”

— Millicent Ashby

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon

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

— Antonio Callado

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative…

— Millicent Ashby

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor