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Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.
— Daniel Marques
Writing is a way of life.
— Kayla Lowe
I love to laugh! My life would be lessened if I didn't
— Samuel Colbran, Lake Merrin
It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.
— Maggie Stiefvater
You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.
— Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
I truly don’t understand why at every Q and A, someone always asks, “Do you have a routine?” or “Do you write every morning?” Why those questions remain interesting, I really have no idea. But since no one’s putting a gun to their head to ask them, they must compel. They’re probably necessary on a symbolic level more than a literal one, as people cobble together an imagination of what a life devoted to “making” might be like.[I think people want a path to follow. They want a checklist so they can say, “Alright cool, so if I get up at six and I write for this long and I watch this film and I do that…”]It’s weird, because I might have wanted that, too. I used to dance in New York. My Lower East Side days. Modern dance, or whatever. One thing I learned as a dancer was that people learn combinations different ways. Some people, if they get the right side, they can also get the left side right off the top of their head. Some people need to be taught both right and left. Some people count, some people never count, you know? I noticed then that, for me, it was really watching the whole person dancing, trying to take in the whole combination at once, that helped me learn it. I think I’m the same way as a reader—I like to take in the whole book, not getting too specific about how they did it, but ride the bigger example.I mean, at the end of the day, the answer to the question “How did you do it?” is right there, on the page. They’re showing you how they did it, by doing it. Maybe it’s different with art, when you don’t know if someone had all their sculptures knitted or welded by elves somewhere, but with writing, the answer to the question “How do you write a book like this?” is usually, “Like this” [points to book].
— Maggie Nelson
I like writing that puts the needle right into the vein. I don’t think, when I’m writing, “Tell a good story” or “find a meaning.” I’m thinking phrase by phrase, make it tight, make it good. Get the idea out in language I can bear. I think there’s something musical about being impatient with boring sentences—it’s not that I don’t have boring sentences, God knows I do, but I’m impatient with them.
— Maggie Nelson
I tend to have really interested conversations with employers. They enjoy my interviews and they always last a little longer than norm for i have so much to say and as one said, i am but a breath of fresh air. I was asked what motivates me?I told them my children.When i was a child, i wanted to be like Oprah. I want to be the kind of person my children will be aspire to be. I want my daughter to say she wants to be like me.
— Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
A writer creates from his mind; his creations emanate from the feelings enmeshed deep within his heart. From the fire burning within his soul, he gives shape to his thoughts. His thoughts start to breathe. Every sentence breathes with a purpose.
— Avijeet Das
Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.
— B.A. Gabrielle
To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.
— Matthew Reilly
He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.
— Lindsay McKenna, Wind River Wrangler
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.
— Jack   Jordan
He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.
— Lindsay McKenna, Wind River Wrangler
Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,Which into words no virtue can digest.
— Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.
— Stephen King
I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.
— Oliver
I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.
— Oliver
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.
— Anastasia Bolinder
Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.
— Anastasia Bolinder
If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible.
— Anastasia Bolinder
I'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge.
— Tanmaya Guru
I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Fanscination is what keeps a writer going. To be able to write, a writer has to be fascinated about a particular something that becomes the idea of the story
— Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love
Being a writer means you write not only for yourself- but for others as well. That's what makes a writer a writer.
— This is my own quote
Feel free to like & share!I have been writing now for 3 years, managed to publish 12 books, it's coming along. I can really use you guys support. A great amount of being a writer is having the ability to persist and along the way each book sale with its additional review comments is a win and a reminder that I can make it. Pick up one of my books today and if you like it, tell a friend and maybe will do the same thing. It would be much appreciated. You'll find them on Amazon and Kobo.Claire :)
— Claire Hamelin Manning
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith, hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
— Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood
A writer’s tools are desperation, humiliation, loneliness, love, affection, heartache, happiness, glee, defeat, victory, setbacks, and a desire for personal redemption. People with the experience to know of such things relate that in order to write one must suffer an alleyway of anguish, and experience an array of physical and emotional pain. More than anything else, emotional growth, and writing are each reflective of the immeasurable gain accomplished through studious reflection.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
From the beginning, I’ve told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I’m the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?
— Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers
I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)
— O. Henry
Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, “Edgar Allen Poe” I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.
— Chris Mentillo
waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.
— Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.
— Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell
The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End".
— Bryan Koepke
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.
— Bree Verity
A liar with a pen is a writer
— Genesis Quihuis
Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.
— Jen Golembiewski
As far as I get as more I learn. As now I don't think that ordinary person is Stephen King... as far as now I think that he looks at people's behavior and look as far as they can reach... ( - Awesome as that!)
— Deyth Banger
As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!
— Deyth Banger
The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love—the real writer wants to touch another person.
— Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
About my interests: I don’t know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink – it’s my melancholy conviction that I’ve scarcely ever had enough to eat (this is because it’s impossible to eat enough if you’re worried about the next meal) – and I love to argue with people who do not disagree with me too profoundly, and I love to laugh. I do not like bohemia, or bohemians, I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure, and I do not like people who are earnest about anything. I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one’s own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.
— James     Baldwin
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Just Because I Write About Horror, And The Supernatural, Etc...Doesn't Mean I Am A Monster Or A Bad Person.
— Chris Mentillo
Leave me to die a lonely death. An artist’s death. A writer’s playground. A painter’s background. A philosopher’s bread and butter.An endeavor that we all face. I just hope that I’m not the only one there.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
Do not judge a book by its price!
— Claire Hamelin Manning, Project Carbon Copy: They are Amongst us and Here to Stay
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, The Ghost Writer
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
Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die.
— Deyth Banger
Don`t you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.
— Vaishnavi Hajari
The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.
— Phyllis Rose
But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer to reach for anything but the nearest cliche'. "Shouldered his way," "only to be met," "crashing into his face," "waging a lonely war," "corruption that is rife," "sending shock waves," "New York's finest," - these dreary phrases constitute writing at its most banal. We know just what to expect. No surprise awaits us in the form of an unusual word, an oblique look. We are in the hands of a hack, and we know it right away, We stop reading.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
I would not be myself without writing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Writing is the only thing that makes me feel alive.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
There's a hum that happens inside my head when I hit a certain writing rhythm, a certain speed. When laying track goes from feeling like climbing a mountain on my hands and knees to feeling like flying effortlessly through the air. Like breaking the sound barrier. everything inside me just shifts. I break the writing barrier. And the feeling of laying track changes, transforms, shifts from exertion into exultation.
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right".
— Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
A good writer is an excellent reader.
— Cyci Cade
It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
No one is treated with more patronizing condescension than the unpublished author or, in general, the would-be artist. At best he is commiserated. At worst mocked. He has presumed to rise above others and failed. I still recall a conversation around my father’s deathbed when the visiting doctor asked him what his three children were doing. When he arrived at the last and said young Timothy was writing a novel and wanted to become a writer, the good lady, unaware that I was entering the room, told my father not to worry, I would soon change my mind and find something sensible to do. Many years later, the same woman shook my hand with genuine respect and congratulated me on my career. She had not read my books.
— Tim Parks, Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.
— Daniel Marques
What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous" (many), "facilitate" (ease), "Individual" (man or woman), "remainder" (rest), "initial" (first), "implement" (do), "sufficient" (enough), "attempt" (try), "referred to as" (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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, After the Gazebo
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style
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., The Elements of Style
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, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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, The Writing Life
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, Crash n Carry: The True Story of Britain's Ramraiders
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
By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author
— Manos Filippou, Supercharge Your Motivation and Performance
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, The Writing Life
...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, Soumission
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, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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, The Cave of Wisdom: Finest of Esoteric & Semitic Philosophy
A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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, Bits of Heaven
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, Muse
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, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Let your light shine from the inside out.
— Juliet M Sampson
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, The Last Word
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, Perempuan Dalam Hujan: Sealbum Puisigrafi
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, Ask the Dust
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, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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 Last Word
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, The Spirit of Pessimism
Look back, but never look down.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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, Goodbye to All That
We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.
— Nicohle Christopherson
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, Joseph Anton: A Memoir
And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.
— James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins
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, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
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, Cabot Wright Begins
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, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
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, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
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, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
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, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
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, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
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, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
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, Between You  Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You are a writer. You just need to write.
— Jeff Goins, You Are A Writer
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
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, Witch Week
Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.
— Rob Bignell, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
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, Coming Undone
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, Picasso
There is always, always, always something to write about.
— Rob Bignell, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
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, The Rabbit Back Literature Society
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, The Protest
Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.
— Kelly Moran, All of Me
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
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, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
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
...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.
— Rob Bignell, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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, The Prosekiller Chronicles: Rise of the Spider Goddess -- An Annotated Novel
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, Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories
...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, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
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, The End of Forever
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, The Bone Clocks
I learn my world through writing.
— Charlotte Eriksson
A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, because you can feel the stories living inside you, nudging you, prodding you, itching to get out and the only thing worse than writing it and failing is not writing it. As the late Maya Angelou once said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Even if your work doesn't resonate with others, it is still worth writing. And that in itself, is what's important.
— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
Description is the color in the canvas of your story.
— M. Kirin
An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.
— Darrell Case
I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul.
— Cindy Aime
The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourself and the world a favor: Don't write it until you're ready to do so. Only then is it your truest artist being heard. And only then will the world want to hear what you have to say."-Wendy K. Williamson 9/25/14
— Wendy K. Williamson, I'm Not Crazy Just Bipolar
You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist.
— Michael Kroft
Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one's soul." - Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo' s Quotes
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!
— Marilyn Fowler, Silent Echoes
TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.
— M. Kirin
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart
— Munia Khan
Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.
— M. Kirin
It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.
— C.F. Heller