Writer Quotes

Writer Quote of the day

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

Do you drink?""Of course, I just said I was a writer.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

Writers are made, they are not born.

I stopped losing my sleep over you...Now i lie awakein search of me!!

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

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

It's okay darling, creative people are called crazyall the time.

Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

If you don't write, then read.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!

With my simple writings I want to change the mindset of humanity so that they themselves can create a positive new world where they can live with dignity and peace.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.