Writer Quotes - Page 5

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, for crossing the line, and for stealing God’s fire, artists were banned, imprisoned, condemned, silenced, killed – they always would be, these sometimes Christs of the page.

Hanif Kureishi

With writing, i can do everything. Make nothing to be something, and then make something to big thing. So, i know, that nothing and big thing is so true as same thing

Lenang Manggala

She made me a stranger unto myself, she was all of those calm nights and tall eucalyptus trees, the desert stars, that land and sky, that fog outside, and I had come there with no purpose save to be a mere writer, to get money, to make a name for myself and all that piffle. She was so much finer than I, so much more honest, that I was sick of myself and I could not look at her warm eyes, I suppressed the shiver brought on by her brown arms around my neck and the long fingers in my hair. I did not kiss her. She kissed me, author of The Little Dog Laughed.

John Fante

Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.

Fennel Hudson

The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely man’s most fatal creation, the devil’s kitsch bitch. It was God, with his insistence on being worshipped and admired, who made the argument of art necessary, keeping the fire of dissent alive in men and women. This dissident was the artist, who spanned with his imagination reason and unreason, the under and the over, the dream and the world, men and women.

Hanif Kureishi

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Donald Miller

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

John Gardner

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

S.A. Tawks

Look back, but never look down.

Fennel Hudson

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Fennel Hudson

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

Fennel Hudson

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

Fennel Hudson

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

Fennel Hudson

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

Fennel Hudson

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Jenim Dibie

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

Robert Graves

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

Nicohle Christopherson

By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author

Manos Filippou

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

Teju Cole

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

Annie Dillard

People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

Michel Houellebecq

I had feared this end, wondered where I would go from it, from the moment I first stepped on this footpath in the desert. But I found I was not afraid of reaching it now. I was happy. I hadn't found every answer for where I was going, but I now had all I needed to take these next steps. I knew I would do what I needed to become a writer now.

Aspen Matis

Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist.

Kata Mlek

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

Rajesh Nanoo

A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

Aishah Madadiy

Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.

Dawn Garcia

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

Dawn Garcia

It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

Dawn Garcia

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

Andrè Michael Pietroschek

As I empty my head, I feel wonderful and alive. Sometimes my creation is as beautiful as the feeling it produces, but most often it has to go through many changes before it is considered good enough for public consumption.

Faye E. Robinson

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Nikita Dudani

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Jonathan Galassi

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

Ernest Hemingway

Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those who were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Suzy Kassem

As a writer, my mission is to represent the perceptible world in such a way that readers can see the extraordinary that lives all around them. I want to converse on the page. I want to squash the humdrum, the mendacity that arrives due to too many overworked routines and overfed expectations. I want to entertain and awaken. I want to imagine and observe. I want to spin my fiction from an honest, curious place.

Jen Knox

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight.

William Strunk Jr.

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

Susan J. McIntire

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

Alessandra Torre

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If you want to be a writer, then write.

I. Marlene King

There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

Anne Lamott

Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

Anne Lamott

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Anne Lamott

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

Annie Dillard

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.

Anne Lamott

Among the responsibilities of any writer is that, no matter what else, they know what they mean. So, even if no one else knows what you're talking about, you do. The listener can sense that, even if they don't get the literal meaning. The faith that they place in the clues and the connections and the secrets of the lyrics is of the utmost importance.

Joanna Newsom

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

Susan J. McIntire

I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists’ lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic ‘Yes’. We’ve come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ....

Stephen Richards

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.

Henry Johnson Jr

Broken heart is flute.i blow into the flute & design walking portrait with empty pen

basant nayak

why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it" AP

Alexis Pettway

What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying “Let’s pretend.

Jennifer Froelich

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

George R.R. Martin

There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!

Philip Roth

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

Vincent Louis Carrella

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