...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...
~ John Geddes
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
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
~ Mary Sage Nguyen
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?
~ V.s. Naipaul
Anyone who says Trust me is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.
~ R.d. Ronald
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.
~ Avijeet Das
These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!
~ Kamand Kojouri
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
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.
~ John Steinbeck
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
~ Sara Sheridan
Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
~ Jo Deurbrouck
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
~ Sylvia Plath
Do you drink?Of course,I just said I was a writer.
~ Stephen King
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.
~ Samuel Beckett
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
~ John Green
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.
~ Christopher Moore
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
~ Paul Simon
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
~ Kristin Cashore
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.
~ Virginia Woolf
You sure about this writer thing son?
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.
~ Aldo Leopold
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!
~ Anamika Mishra
The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I'd love to be a writer one day
~ Danielle Steel
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.
~ Elise Stokes
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.
~ Craig Johnson
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.
~ Dorianne Laux
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
~ H. Raven Rose
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
~ Cao Yu
A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
~ Margaret Atwood
Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.
~ Suzy Kassem
I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a writer
~ Charisse Spiers
The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
~ Pat Conroy
