Writer Quotes

By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist.

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

With writing, i can do everything. Make nothing to be something, and then make something to big thing. So, i know, that nothing and big thing is so true as same thing

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

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.

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

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

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

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

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

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

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

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