Writer Quotes
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...
You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa
All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.
To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.
I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee.
Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.
How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?
For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.
If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.
To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.
With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.
I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.
You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".
Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.
We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
– I’m going to be a writer, he reminded Milo.– And you won’t need literature?– I’ll write my own.
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.
This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.
Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?
I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.
The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.