Writer Quotes

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

~ Fennel Hudson

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

~ Fennel Hudson

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

~ Fennel Hudson

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

~ Fennel Hudson

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

~ Fennel Hudson

She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

~ Nikki Rowe

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

~ Ray Bradbury

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

~ Mary Norris

You are a writer. You just need to write.

~ Jeff Goins

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discouraging to a creative writer, like you, and also to a hardworking and devoted editor like me. I love most of my editor colleagues but I must confess that I get a little depressed and sad when some of their neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812 gets [sic] adopted by a Reading Circle.

~ Leonard S. Marcus

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

~ Milan Kundera

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

~ Nikki Rowe

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

~ Rob Bignell

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry....

~ Virginia Alison

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

~ Gertrude Stein

There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

~ C.s. Woolley

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at her and whispered, “You know what? It makes you understand why a dog eats its own vomit.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

~ Melody Robinette

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

~ Earl M. Coleman

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

~ Melody Robinette

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

~ Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

~ Kelly Moran

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

~ Rob Bignell

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

~ P. Anastasia

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

~ Rob Bignell

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

~ Franz Kafka

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

~ Peter Straub

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

~ Rob Bignell

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

~ Jim C. Hines

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and dreams never end!What is time?

~ John Siwicki

I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.

~ Mary M. Lund

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures that resulted in Vandalism. When will morning break for great leaders to stand for what is right Mother Liberia?

~ Henry Johnson Jr

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

~ Debasish Mridha

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

~ Debasish Mridha