Books Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Growing Growing up Inspirational Overrated
“If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
