Writer Quotes

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.

the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

A voice, a tone, a feelingDeep inside, growing bigger and brighter.Shining against the dark area in my soul.Telling everyone that I haven’t leftI am here!

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

Being a writer makes you immortal.

That’s why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.

When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

The darkest hour of my day is the one in which I don't get to see you.

Every time I see you, I have to admit that rest of us are more uglier than I thought.

I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.

The air is full of flying kisses sent by the people who are watching you.

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

Every great writer is a great reader.

As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not.

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.

Duty is sinless.

Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear

If you've never experienced something and don't know how to write about it, then make it a fantasy book. It gives you a lot of freedom.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

If you don't write, then read.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves