Writer Quotes

I read obsessively when I'm writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write and those who can't read at all, lest their individual voices get overwhelmed, or tainted somehow. I'm the first kind. To use a painfully precious metaphor, I need fixed stars to navigate by, otherwise I get lost in the blankness of the page.

~ Lev Grossman

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

~ Saru Singhal

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

~ Tom Conrad

You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win the latest romance award... but guess what? None of that makes a difference if you don't WRITE something people want to READ. The greatest editor in the world won't make your book a best seller if it isn't something people care about. So forget all of the fluff that clouds your purpose... writing!!

~ Kathryn Le Veque

I am a master wordsmith. I have the ability to bend words at will and invoke feelings with the stroke of my pen. But I'm yet to master the art of finding the right words to describe what happens in my heart when I see you.

~ J.a. Anum

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

~ Solange Nicole

NO SURROGATE CAN BIRTHYOUR GREATNESSSO LET THEM STEAL TIME WILL REVEAL

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWNBACK

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF

~ Qwana M. Babygirl Reynolds-Frasier

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

~ Robert Harris

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

~ Drake

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

~ Frank Peretti

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

~ Mary Kay Andrews

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

~ J.k. Rowling

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

~ Walter Cronkite

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

~ Maya Angelou

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

~ Maria Semple

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

~ Neil Gaiman

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

~ Ernest Hemingway

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

~ Leslie Fiedler

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

~ Robyn Davidson

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

~ Drew Barrymore

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

~ Salman Rushdie

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

~ Gertrude Stein

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

~ Elia Kazan

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

~ Carlene Carter

I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

~ Daniel Woodrell

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

~ Bobbie Ann Mason

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

~ Pauley Perrette

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

~ Willie Morris

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

~ Roald Dahl