Writers Quotes
Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.
Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.
Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.
All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.
i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.
My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth
I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.
A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They just don’t. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.
By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!