Books Quote by Jennifer Niven

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

— John Berger

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

— Gao Xingjian

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself…

— Nicole Krauss

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

— Brion Gysin

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no…

— David Bowie

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me…

— Jorge Luis Borges

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write,…

— David Friedman