For Writers Quotes

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

Writin’ Is Fightin'!

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

My advice to writers is this:Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play, feel, LIVE.Then write it down.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!

Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!

He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTHYOUR GREATNESSSO LET THEM STEAL TIME WILL REVEAL

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW