By A Writer Quotes

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

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

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

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.

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 --

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

I've never had writer's block.

I only get writer's block about once a day.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.