By A Writer Quotes

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Art is not in some far-off place.

A writer always writes.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

You sure about this writer thing son?

You can never know enough about your characters

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.