For Writers Quotes

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life

I write because I want to give strength to myself

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

Writers live twice.

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

If we must encounter each other, let’s do it the old way—in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Writing gives me wings.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Authors are sick people.

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

#Writers, #artists, and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

How do I get inspired? Life.

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?