Books Quote by Frank Peretti

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us,…

— Wallace Shawn

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will…

— Lois Duncan

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we…

— John Updike

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride