Writers On Writing Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

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.

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

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.

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

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 life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

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.

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.

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

Look back, but never look down.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

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

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

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.