Writer Quotes

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

~ Ron Brackin

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

~ Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

~ Annie Dillard

I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

~ Stephen King

– I’m going to be a writer, he reminded Milo.– And you won’t need literature?– I’ll write my own.

~ Caleb Crain

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

~ Zaeema J. Hussain

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

~ Jamie L. Harding

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

~ A.k. Kuykendall

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

~ Jamie L. Harding

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

~ Samuel Beckett

The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the doing how ready I had to be. Life doesn't hold still. A good snapshot stopped a moment from running away. Photography taught me that to be able to capture transience, by being ready to click the shutter at the crucial moment, was the greatest need I had. Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture, and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it. These were things a writer needed to know. And I felt the need to hold transient life in words - there's so much more of life that only words can convey - strongly enough to last me as long as I lived. The direction my mind took was a writer's direction from the start, not a photographer's or a recorder's.

~ Eudora Welty

Perfectly written isn't human, exact replicas aren't flawless and thinking you have to achieve them all is futile. Seek to write and create what deeply moves you and only then will the words and work you create feel perfectly flawless.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

~ Avijeet Das

It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.

~ Dexter Palmer

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

~ Anne Lamott

People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.

~ Genesis Quihuis

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

~ Shon Mehta

Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?

~ Holly Bourne

... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’s smell can make you feel at home even though you’re a million miles away fromhomeand have you ever hurt someone you love? Because you’re angry. Because you’re disappointed and sad and you just really wanted to love and be loved in returnbut life got in the way and you both said things that should never be said and you’re angry but don’t know how to. Because you still feel this strange love for him, but you’re also fucking angry and you want to hit him, but then hug him because hurting him is hurting yourself, and then hit him again because you’re angry! and so you fall on your knees because you’re hopeless to yourself and your own emotionsand that’s love, my friend.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

~ Jenim Dibie

I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.

~ Sarah Brocious

I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

~ H.u.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

~ Munia Khan

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

~ Sara Sheridan

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.

~ Dani Harper

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

~ John Geddes

Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.

~ Chris Prentiss