Writer Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

~ Joshua Cohen

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

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

~ William Zinsser

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

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

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

~ Dean Koontz

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

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

~ Toba Beta

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

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

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