Writer Quotes
Mik Everett
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
1860Jackie Collins
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
4714 M. Kirin
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.
2753 Alexei Maxim Russell
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
2613 M. Kirin
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.
1024 Munia Khan
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
4898 Charlotte Eriksson
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
1621 Svetlana Alexievich
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated this genre of actual human voices and confessions, witness evidences and documents. This is how I hear and see the world—as a chorus of individual voices and a collage of everyday details. In this way all my mental and emotional potential is realized to the full. In this way I can be simultaneously a writer, reporter, sociologist, psychologist and preacher.
3642 Lili St. Crow
Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.
3668 Robert M. Drake
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.
2700 Robert M. Drake
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
3241 Charlotte Eriksson
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?
3802 David Nicholls
Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.
1205 A. Saleh
When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.
3057 Dorianne Laux
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
4021 Charles Dickens
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
2714 Jack Kerouac
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
2293 Roman Payne
Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?
2658 Marge Piercy
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
4587 Lang Leav
I don't think all writers are sad, she said.
I think it's the other way around -
all sad people write.
3555 Michelle Richmond
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
3603 Stephanie Lennox
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
3103 Charlotte Brontë
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme - and when you so give yourself - you lose appetite ans sleep - it cannot be helped -
1058 Tobias Wolff
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
3110 Christian Bauman
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
3425 Wendy Swore
Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.
3648 Kiera Woodhull
I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist?
4564 Henry Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
1575 Adam Johnson
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
2823 Nikki Giovanni
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
2632 Sharon Delarose
If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.
3036 Vladimir Nabokov
The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.
3797 Vera Nazarian
The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.
4553 Andrea A. Lunsford
...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
2552 Jyoti Arora
No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do.
1164 Jenim Dibie
And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.
4506 Crystal Woods
I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?
2958 Raghad Khalil
as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?
1590 Ryan Lilly
Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.
2165 Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
1773 Sarah Brocious
I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.
4661 Roman Payne
Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.
4144 M. Kirin
Description is the color in the canvas of your story.
3559 M. Kirin
If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer.
2455 M. Kirin
Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.
2039 M. Kirin
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
3787 M. Kirin
Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?
Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.
3990 M. Kirin
All great writers share one thing in common:
They finished their books.
1231 M. Kirin
You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.
2382 M. Kirin
You were meant to write this book.
4507 M. Kirin
If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…
THIS IS IT.
1076 M. Kirin
Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.
Sit down, and write.
1506 M. Kirin
All great stories began as shitty first drafts.
There are no exceptions to this.
2900 M. Kirin
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
1368 M. Kirin
Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.
3913 M. Kirin
If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?
Now, write that book.
2977 M. Kirin
The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.
2744 M. Kirin
Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.
3046 Anne Carson
I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.
4166 Robert M. Drake
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.
3647 A.K. Kuykendall
My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.
2667 Melody Robinette
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.
4700 Anthony Liccione
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
1043 Ana Claudia Antunes
How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
1972 Jamie L. Harding
Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
4895 Sara Sheridan
I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.
1339 Sanhita Baruah
To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.
I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.
4394 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
2498 Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.
4112 A.K. Kuykendall
The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.
4134 Nirav Sanchaniya
A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.
4176 Sara Sheridan
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
3372 Jamie L. Harding
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
1579 Jamie L. Harding
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
3267 Jamie L. Harding
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
4737 Shannon Celebi
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
1847 Dani Harper
There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
2709 Charlotte Eriksson
And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.
2054 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
1605 Sara Sheridan
Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.
3066 D. Antoinette Foy
My heart's scripture tastes
foreign in the mouths of
cowards and on the tongues of
those who have never breathed in
the moon and breathed out the world.
4995 Sara Sheridan
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
4266 Nina Jean Slack
Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack
1006 A.K. Kuykendall
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unsuspecting doll.
2588 Tawny Lara
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
1972 Tawny Lara
Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion
3228 D. Antoinette Foy
The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you've done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don't have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.
3920 D. Antoinette Foy
The sky never falls with the rain.
It is never weighed down by all that
it carries. It takes all of its anchors
and turns them into stars.
Learn from this.
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