Books Quote by Shannon Celebi Download Open image ““Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”” — Shannon Celebi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Read Reading Reading books Writer Writers Writing Writing advice Writing life Writing process Writing-craft Writing-process-writing-advice
“Have you always used a pen?” “No,” I said, “only when I want to write something worth reading.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“don't talk about all the things you're going to write; put pen to paper instead.” — Shirley Johnson Copy Share Image
“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.” — John R. Erickson Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.” — Lenore Appelhans Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community.… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around...” — Shannon Celebi 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
