Writer Quotes - Page 8

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Christopher Moore

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

Robert Lynn Asprin

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Søren Kierkegaard

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

Shannon L. Alder

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

William Saroyan

I'd love to be a writer one day

Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.

Lewis H. Michaux

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

Alberto Manguel

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Michelle Richmond

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

Jason E. Hodges

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

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.

Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it?

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

Mary Sage Nguyen

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.

Flannery O'Connor

You can never know enough about your characters

W Somerset Maugham

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story is not about you, it's about people and things that no one else sees. The truth will at times come to you in a blur, unclear, unsettling refusing to leave until you figure out its relevance.

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

Ana Claudia Antunes

I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People intrigue me. Life intrigues me. I see a story behind every pair of eyes I meet, history in every voice. I'll see someone wearing a smile and wonder what put it there. Words allow me to immerse myself in a whole other world. I get to become a different person.

I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Nicholaa Spencer

If you don't write, then read.

Sylvia L'Namira

I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need to. Then the following steps; proofread and publish. Of course before you just go into writing, it would be a good idea to do some charts of each chapter...what you would want each one to be about and have a character list with their personalities and how they will come into play in your book. I mean, you wouldn't just want to go all crazy and jot down all kinds of random stuff at once...trust me, you'll go crazy. With writing, you take it as it comes, go with your own flow.-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Shannon Taylor Hodnett

Some relationships are like glass its better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together again. When you start reading the Bunna Man, most of my readers hate Dre and then they realize that Dre doesn't really have any power. The only power he has is the one Saf gave him. What happens now is that by you reach the middle of the story, your anger turns from Dre to Saf cause you realize that Saf is the catalyst behind her own misery. If she'd leave Dre alone. Her suffering would end

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

W Somerset Maugham

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?

Ann Hood

If you've never experienced something and don't know how to write about it, then make it a fantasy book. It gives you a lot of freedom.

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