For Writers Quotes

For Writers Quote of the day

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

To survive, you must tell stories.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

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

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

We writers are resilient souls.