Writer Habits Quotes

#1. In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Jose Saramago

#2. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#3. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

C.S. Lewis

#4. A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias ... it is the Self escaping into the open.

E.B. White

#5. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Carl Sagan

#6. Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.

Jane Lindskold

#7. I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Paul Theroux

#8. You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff

#9. The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Sophocles

#10. The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Theodor Reik

#11. For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Philip Roth

#12. It is of vital importance to [Mandela] to be courteous and grateful at all times, as we never know whether we will have the opportunity to thank people or pay respect whenever they have been good to you.

Zelda La Grange

#13. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

Jamie L. Harding

#14. New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.

Jen Pollock Michel

#15. I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

Beth Broderick

#16. Well, I like to have fun at work.

John Malkovich

#17. I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.

Avijeet Das

#18. She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

Isabel Allende

#19. Downtown Newcago spread out before me, its surfaces reflecting starlight. Everything was steel here. Like a cyborg from the future with the skin ripped off. Only, you know, not murderous. Or, well, alive at all.
Man, I thought. I really do suck at metaphors.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Billy Graham

#21. Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#22. The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.

Philip Gerard

#23. Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias ... Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

William Strunk Jr.