For Writers Quotes

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

Let you light shine from the inside out.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it.

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

Your dreams don’t stop being dreams because of circumstances.

What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.

A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.