Writer Quotes

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

I am going to hurt you.You are going to hurt me.But we will do it with practiced fingersand passionate mouthsand I swear to godit will be worth something.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

I'd love to be a writer one day

Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]

Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

Words both written and read are my passion.

There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!

The best kind of day is a writing day

I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

Security is superstitious. It doesn't exist in nature

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

Life is like a diamond. More you trim it, more it becomes beautiful...

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.