Writers Quotes

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either, ' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

That's okay, " I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Strong people write bad stories.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Nothing is louder than silence.

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer

I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again

I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

There is no time for holding back.

Truth is not a stereotype.

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.

Find what speaks to your energy and live it.

All the promise of a movie is in the trailer.

Every day is a journey.

I write because I know magic happens

As long as you’re with you, that’s all that matters.

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

Dance when the sun comes up.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

I write because I always want good to win over evil

A writer’s breakthrough is a breakdown with a smile.

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.

In life, be a kid in a candy store.

Own your truth.

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

It’s always more than just a story.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Take your ego out of your story.

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!

Life is sacred story.

I write because I believe