For Writers Quotes

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other.

Color me....BRILLIANT.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.

A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

How become a writer? Naturally.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

Writers are born, not created.

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

Professional writers write to fit

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

Many writers were better before they became famous.

Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz

Writers are the ink of society

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

I am grateful for the white sheet - all my stories are his.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice.

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.

Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.

No one is polite to writers.

Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.

Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!

Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.

What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it’s actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.

That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of

Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.