Writers On Writing Quotes

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

~ Buffy Andrews

Writer. Another word for poor.

~ Buffy Andrews

The power of the delete key.

~ Buffy Andrews

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

~ Common

Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and truly creative writer. It will replace attitude with genuine confidence, and empty arrogance with artistry.

~ Molly Cochran

To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone has it.

~ Michael Kelahan

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

~ Dennis R. Miller

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus)

~ Martijn Benders

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

~ Christopher Isherwood

There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.

~ Thomas Macdonagh

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.

~ Caron Kamps Widden

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

~ Deana J. Driver

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

~ Christopher Isherwood

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

~ Ana Patrick

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

~ Karl Kraus

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

~ John Hughes

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

~ H. Raven Rose

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns.

~ Mavis Cheek

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

~ K. Sean Harris

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

~ John Steinbeck

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

~ T.c. Boyle

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

~ Jyoti Arora