Writer Quotes

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

~ Debasish Mridha

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

~ Debasish Mridha

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

~ Debasish Mridha

The day I became a writerit wasn't the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn't the first time someone actually paid for one of my bookswhich happens less and less as time goes onIt was the day I realizedthat everything is created by manGod, Satan, Judas, phobias, excrement, even deatheven womeneverything is created by manSo I said to myselfshit, let me make something let me tape together some words and sentencesand proseand predicatesand the residual shit that sticks to my ass after I wipeand compose a new kind of thingBut then I realized that others had discovered thisfor themselves as wellAnd suddenly the world became a jungleWhere everyone eats each other aliveAnd shits out the same shit

~ Dave Matthes

...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

~ Rob Bignell

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

~ Lurlene Mcdaniel

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

~ Janice Valencia Capulso

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.

~ David Mitchell

I learn my world through writing.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, because you can feel the stories living inside you, nudging you, prodding you, itching to get out and the only thing worse than writing it and failing is not writing it. As the late Maya Angelou once said, There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.Even if your work doesn't resonate with others, it is still worth writing. And that in itself, is what's important.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

~ M. Kirin

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

~ Darrell Case

I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul.

~ Cindy Aime

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourself and the world a favor: Don't write it until you're ready to do so. Only then is it your truest artist being heard. And only then will the world want to hear what you have to say.-Wendy K. Williamson 9/25/14

~ Wendy K. Williamson

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist.

~ Michael Kroft

Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one's soul. - Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo' s Quotes

~ Elizabeth E. Castillo

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride!

~ Marilyn Fowler

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

~ M. Kirin

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.

~ M. Kirin

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

~ C.f. Heller

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

~ M. Kirin

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

~ M. Kirin

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

~ Alamvusha

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

~ M. Kirin

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

~ M. Kirin

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

~ M. Kirin

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

~ Karris Callahan

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

~ M. Kirin

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

~ M. Kirin

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

~ M. Kirin

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

~ M. Kirin

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

~ M. Kirin

You were meant to write this book.

~ M. Kirin

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

~ M. Kirin

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer.

~ M. Kirin

Write the words The FIve Senses on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bulletin board above your desk, if at all possible. Some place where you can tack images, quotes, postcards, scraps of thoughts and ideas that will help remind you of you you are and what you're doing.

~ Dani Shapiro

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

~ Alamvusha