Writers On Writing Quotes
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.
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.
Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
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 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!
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.
Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.
When I write, I can be hear. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
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.
The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.
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.
Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.
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
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.
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
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.
If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.
But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?
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.
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.