Writer Quotes

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

~ Tawny Lara

I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars- 1st edition.’ And you helped me with the illustrations.

~ Crystal Woods

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

~ Camille Desmoulins

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.

~ Shana Chartier

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

~ Criss Jami

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

~ Debasish Mridha

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

~ Criss Jami

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

~ Anne Carson

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.

~ Yann Martel

A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude of that truth. In this respect, children and women in love are born writers.

~ Christian Bobin

The ScribeUnder the wingsOf the feathered Goddess,And in the middleOf the three dancing women,The scribe comes aliveTo reveal mysteries hiddenThrough divine gifts givenThe scribe is drivenOn his sacred missionTo wake upAll the universe'sMen, women andHeavenly children.Under the seven rays of Aten,And from the age of just ten,The scribe comes aliveWith the fertile inkOf his luminous pen.Below the spectacle of the moon,And in the smile of the sun,The scribe is here to show usHow we are all one.

~ Suzy Kassem

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

~ Astrid Lindgren

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

~ Peggy A. Borel

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

~ Terry A O'neal

There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words(The Watcher O' The Dead)

~ John Guinan

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life, the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven’t done enough.

~ Allison J. Kennedy

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.

~ Sanhita Baruah

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

~ Pushpa Rana

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

~ Carl Henegan

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

~ Sara Sheridan

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

~ Sara Sheridan

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

~ Sara Sheridan

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all.

~ Shahla Khan

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision.But it was not good enough.He wanted the pages to sing with ideas that had once seemed so important to him, all and everything he knew, and yet they did not, and no amount of diligence was able to bring them to life. The story came to be a burden and weighed more heavily in his hands each time he lifted it out of the drawer. After a few weeks he was reluctant to open the desk at all.(Talking In The Dark)

~ Dennis Etchison

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.

~ Roxane Gay

If you call yourself an authoress on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to be cute and original. You're not. You are about as original as all those other witless twits writing the one millionth shitty Fifty Shades clone. Or maybe you're trying to show your 2000 fake Facebook friends that you are an empowered feminist who will not stand for sexist terminology. But you're not showing people that you are fighting the good fight, you're showing people that you are a sheep, who's trying just a little too hard to ride the current wave of idiotic political correctness. The word author is no more gender-discrimination than the word person. Do you call yourself a personess? No, of course not, because then you might as well wear a sign around your neck that says, Hello, I'm a retard.

~ Oliver Markus

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying hoe or bitch I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using bitches and hoes as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

~ Scott Mcgoldrick

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen, he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

~ Stanisław Lem

In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

~ Minae Mizumura

What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read?

~ Rawi Hage

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

~ Sara Sheridan

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

~ Pringle Kennedy

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

~ William Zinsser

Do all the work while you still have strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason, it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson