For Writers Quotes

While in England write or get wrought rotten rusted.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

America takes her writers too seriously.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Nothing is louder than silence.

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

Strong people write bad stories.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

That's okay, " I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either, ' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

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.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.