For Writers Quotes

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing

Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance the farther there is to go and the more there is to say the less time there is to say it.

The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

The beginning is easy what happens next is much harder.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

That's not writing that's typing.

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.

In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

When I am dead I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read.'

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Just get it down on paper and then we'll see what to do with it.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons he would lose his angels.

Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

Write something even if it's just a suicide note.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

Every word she writes is a lie including 'and' and 'the'.

Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.