For Writers Quotes
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...
A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.
The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food, ” is already available in English.
Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.
If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.
What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!
There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.
As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.
Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.
Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.
Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
When I write, I can be hear. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".
When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.
Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.
Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.
There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.