Writers Quotes Quotes

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

~ Christy Hall

Occupation: WriterOccupational Hazard: Carpel tunnelSolution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

~ Christy Hall

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.

~ Christy Hall

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

~ Christy Hall

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

~ Carla H. Krueger

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

~ Gerard De Marigny

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

~ Julie Rodelli

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical surroundings, a self-directed exploration of their internal and external environment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist and now speaks with an autonomous, ghostly reverberation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths with in our earthly sojourn.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our personal stories allows us to bring hibernated memories out of seclusion. Reexamination of our historical existence under the light of growing conscious awareness assist us make psychological breakthroughs. Analyzing the elemental substance of our personal story from a sundry of viewpoints employing techniques of literature, philosophy, logical reasoning, and abstract thinking assist us perceive our discrete chronicle in symbolic terms and in mythological context.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their present personality and make up a new imaging.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is vibration that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A good writer has the creativity to polish the broken piano to tune it up in a right tune. Reading their books is the key to choose your favorite frequencies. Now start vibrating and note it down.

~ Surajit Sarkar

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

~ Anne Lamott

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

~ Roman Payne

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

~ Ika Natassa

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Even The Smallest Candle Burns Brighter In The Dark.

~ Chris Mentillo

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

~ Jaime Reed

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

~ Don Roff

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

~ Kevin Cowdall

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

~ Rossana Condoleo

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

~ Roman Payne

I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever been in my life. … It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It’s like, ‘Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It’s super important for my law!

~ Joss Whedon

Authors are sick people.

~ Sarah M. Eden

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

~ Rob Bignell

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

~ Rob Bignell

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

~ Rob Bignell

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

~ Rob Bignell

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

~ Rob Bignell

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

~ Rob Bignell

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

~ Rob Bignell