Writers Quotes

all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

Every day, live in a way that honors who you are.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude,one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.

In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.

Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil.

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

Lately, I usually write at the desk in my living-room or bedroom. From time to time, our red and stripy cat named Foxy decides to be my companion, poking his curious caramel-colored nose to the screen, watching me typing, and making attempts to put his paws on the keyboard despite the fact that he knows he is not allowed to; he also loves to arrange “sunbathing sessions for himself, purring joyfully while lying with his belly up under the lamp placed to the left of my computer; and, of course, the cat can’t wait for when I happen to have a snack, to beg for some treats that seem to him tastiest if eaten from a caring human’s hand.

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

We are inspired to write by divine force.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

I write to believe in goodness.

Shame is a state of mind.

Drizzle happiness wherever you go.

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.

Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

I believe we all have one address and that is Earth.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

We are writing the history of our time.

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.

Her words are her wings. She's flying.

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

Why do you think you are always right?" Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.

I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.

Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

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