Writers On Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Writin’ Is Fightin'!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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".

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.

What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!

Your dreams don’t stop being dreams because of circumstances.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

Rejection is no badge of honour.

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.

As a writer, you don't just write for the ears, you also write for the eyes.

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.