Writers On Writing Quotes

Writers On Writing Quote of the day

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

I write to believe in goodness.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

The truth is that most writers are needy.

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.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

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.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

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.

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.