Books Quote by Tyler Childers

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always…

— Elena Ferrante

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

“You Can Only Write By Writing”

— Eleazer Ikekwe

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

— Glenn Ligon

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and…

— Amitava Kumar