Writers World Quotes

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.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

Every book has its ancestors

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

Write on!

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

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.

...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.

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.

I don’t do math.

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

Show me the contract.

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

I am what I have ever read

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel passionately about certain feelings and there is this yearning within me to express these feelings in words. I am not comfortable meeting a lot of people. I like solitude. I like thinking and I dont like talking much.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

I’ll pray for good semen. And I’ll get all of my friends to pray for good semen.

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Me to characters: talk to me people.

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.