Writers Quotes - Page 5

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

We are the children of a womb.Yet we differentiate each other,On color, creed and the sizes of our tombs!!

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.".]

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer’s compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind.

Writing is magic happening on paper

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.

Write for a cause,NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express,NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED.

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who’s the better writer?

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.

Stop now and decide to never worry again about what others think about you.

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

Do you remember the time, Mike,” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!

Less is more.