Writer Quotes - Page 4

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

Jim C. Hines

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and dreams never end!What is time?

John Siwicki

I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.

Mary M. Lund

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Ana Claudia Antunes

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures that resulted in Vandalism. When will morning break for great leaders to stand for what is right Mother Liberia?

Henry Johnson Jr

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

Debasish Mridha

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

Debasish Mridha

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Debasish Mridha

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Debasish Mridha

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Debasish Mridha

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

Debasish Mridha

The day I became a writerit wasn't the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn't the first time someone actually paid for one of my bookswhich happens less and less as time goes onIt was the day I realizedthat everything is created by manGod, Satan, Judas, phobias, excrement, even deatheven womeneverything is created by manSo I said to myselfshit, let me make something let me tape together some words and sentencesand proseand predicatesand the residual shit that sticks to my ass after I wipeand compose a new kind of thingBut then I realized that others had discovered thisfor themselves as wellAnd suddenly the world became a jungleWhere everyone eats each other aliveAnd shits out the same shit

Dave Matthes

...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

Rob Bignell

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

Ogwo David Emenike

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

Lurlene McDaniel

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

Janice Valencia Capulso

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.

David Mitchell

I learn my world through writing.

Charlotte Eriksson

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

Milan Kundera

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

Nikki Rowe

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Diana Wynne Jones

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

Rob Bignell

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry....

Virginia Alison

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

Gertrude Stein

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Rob Bignell

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

C.S. Woolley

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Melody Robinette

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

Earl M. Coleman

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Melody Robinette

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

Kelly Moran

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Rob Bignell

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

P. Anastasia

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Rob Bignell

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

Franz Kafka

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Peter Straub

I think in life there is only one absolute truth. Death... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.

Crystal Evans

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

Salman Rushdie

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

James Purdy

I had decided that I wanted to earn my living as a writer and the only place in Waterbury where they paid you for writing was at the local newspaper. My opportunity came when the paper had an opening for a night janitor. Opportunities are easy to miss, because they don’t always show up in their best clothes. Sometimes opportunities look like beggars in rags. After an eight-hour shift in the shop tossing thirty-pound crates I hustled down to the newspaper building and cleaned toilets, with a vague plan that it would somehow lead to a reporter’s position.

John William Tuohy

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you’re married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who couldn’t in a thousand years be a writer in the only meaning of the term, but who can and probably will write a book.

James Purdy

Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!

Latif Mercado

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Fennel Hudson

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

Fennel Hudson

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

Fennel Hudson

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Fennel Hudson

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.

Fennel Hudson

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.

Fennel Hudson

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

Fennel Hudson

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Fennel Hudson

She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

Nikki Rowe

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

Ray Bradbury

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Mary Norris

You are a writer. You just need to write.

Jeff Goins

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Donna Lynn Hope

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discouraging to a creative writer, like you, and also to a hardworking and devoted editor like me. I love most of my editor colleagues but I must confess that I get a little depressed and sad when some of their neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812 gets [sic] adopted by a Reading Circle.

Leonard S. Marcus

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

Joe Ducie

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

Fennel Hudson

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