Writers On Writing Quotes

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.

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.

Before there were books, we read each other.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

I write because there are things in me that cannot die.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.

I'm not a writer, I just express in words!

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

Don’t know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.