Writers On Quotes

Writers On Quote of the day

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I write to believe in goodness.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The truth is that most writers are needy.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

Save your work, you may never know when the light will go off.

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.

Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.

Reality is just a matter of perception.

I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....