Writers On Thinking Quotes

Writers On Thinking Quote of the day

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

Writing is self-pleasure

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

Writing is magic happening on paper

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Every book has its ancestors

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.

We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!

. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

I am what I have ever read

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

You never know what you will write until you write it

Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it

You cannot write if you are not angry

You cannot write if you are not on fire

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever