Writers Quotes

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Always let life be wild. Forever have life be interesting.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.

I write because I love. I love because I write.

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life

I am absolutely convinced without any uncertainty that the old adage, History Repeats Itself is a valid assertion.

I write because I want to give strength to myself

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

Writers live twice.

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

If we must encounter each other, let’s do it the old way—in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Writing gives me wings.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

How do I get inspired? Life.

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

When you fall in love with a writer you will never die.