Writers On Writing Quotes

A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

Feels so good to be quoted

You may follow the footstepsThe whole day will passWith you going around in circlesYet not reaching anywhere at last!

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.

as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!

Either I love someone completely, totally and madly or not at all!

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Aren't you tired from all that smiling that you do at the camera? Relax and come with me to the mountains. There is more to life than the cameras!

Your eyes hold all the answers to my life's problems.

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.

Reality is just a matter of perception.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Look back, but never look down.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.