For Writers Quotes
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.