Writer Quotes

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

~ Rajesh Nanoo

A writer must pay attention his or her surroundings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Look back, but never look down.

~ Fennel Hudson

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

~ Fennel Hudson

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

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

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

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

~ James Purdy

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

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

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

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