Writers On Quotes
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.
Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...
A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.
The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food, ” is already available in English.
Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.
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.
What's my favorite part that I've written? That’s like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!
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.
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.