Books Quote by Russell Banks

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be…

— V. S. Naipaul

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in…

— Stephen King

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other…

— George R. R. Martin

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person…

— William Stafford