Writers Quotes - Page 21

Listen when your heart speaks.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have ‘talent.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

Love is written by the soul.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.

A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.

That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder")

I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

I write because I want express

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

You cannot write if you are not on fire

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

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

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Find beauty in the madness.

Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

Life is magic.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

We writers are resilient souls.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.

...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?