Writer Quotes - Page 16

In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.

Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

There is strength in kindness.

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's hard when I notice women falling in love with me, and then destroying everything at the same time. And so, I'm changing the world as much as this world is changing me. The two things are inseparable.

She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.

She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice.tI swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say. The fear pricking at me, telling me I had one last chance to wimp out. To walk away.tBut I shook my head. No. Not this time.t“Yes,” I said simply. “I need something.”t“And what, may I ask, do you need?”tI met his eyes. “You.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is spare and pure, pared down to reveal essential truths without ornament or obfuscation. For others it is devilish and twisting, folding back over itself to create layers of meaning, shades of nuance.A language that will survive through the ages.A language that will crack open the heart of readers like a hazelnut.

I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that I could never ignore.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Perfectly written isn't human, exact replicas aren't flawless and thinking you have to achieve them all is futile. Seek to write and create what deeply moves you and only then will the words and work you create feel perfectly flawless.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

I was curious as to how my words started circulating at such an alarming rate. After all, every author waits to be discovered by someone. Anyone. And so I found myself smack bang in the middle of the mad hatters head, and as someone put it, Tumblr might actually be worse than that. But yes, futilely, I was attempting to discover the elusive origin of my words by tracing back notes until I came across my quote right next to a selfie of a stripper, or hooker, with a fox tail butt plug... and that was when I stopped.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

The day I became a writerit wasn't the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn't the first time someone actually paid for one of my bookswhich happens less and less as time goes onIt was the day I realizedthat everything is created by manGod, Satan, Judas, phobias, excrement, even deatheven womeneverything is created by manSo I said to myselfshit, let me make something let me tape together some words and sentencesand proseand predicatesand the residual shit that sticks to my ass after I wipeand compose a new kind of thingBut then I realized that others had discovered thisfor themselves as wellAnd suddenly the world became a jungleWhere everyone eats each other aliveAnd shits out the same shit

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry.

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced