Writers On Quotes

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.

When I write, I can be hear. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

When a writer doesn’t show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God’s famous reluctance to appear.

Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

Writin’ Is Fightin'!

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.