Writers Quotes Quotes

Why the tag of ‘aspiring’ writer be the wishful cliché? It’s like a bumper sticker. Say it! I am a Writer. Period. We may all have a target and gradation toward successes, a personal illusion/perception. The quality or perseverance in one’s craft is your act. Flaws? Sure. Yet, you are a Writer, not a wannabe. Let go of the tags. Just write!

~ Jt Sanz

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

~ Carla H. Krueger

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

~ Carla H. Krueger

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

~ Roman Payne

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

~ Glen Hirshberg

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

~ Nenia Campbell

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

~ Christy Hall

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

~ Christy Hall

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

~ Christy Hall

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.

~ Christy Hall

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

~ Buffy Andrews

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

~ Dennis R. Miller

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

~ Christy Hall

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

~ Christy Hall

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

~ Christy Hall

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

~ Owen Wister

I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

~ Christy Hall

She meant to write: Is Christy here yet?Auto Correct turned it into: Is crazy here yet?For once Auto Correct got it right.

~ Christy Hall

I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.

~ Christy Hall

You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.

~ Christy Hall

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

~ Christy Hall

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

~ Christy Hall

At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

~ Avijeet Das

But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.

~ Dani Shapiro

Writing when perched along a ledge of conscious awareness while simultaneously giving voice to the unconscious voice tumbling within allows a writer to tap into the external world of the known while also exploring the unconscious world of the unknown and the unknowable. For as long as I can stand the mounting pressure, I dance along this tremulous thin line separating sanity and insanity, mediating the conflicts between a lucid intellect and an impulsive, instinctual nature. Captivated in this submerged psyche space, disengaged from conscious tether of personal identity, and free from the jaundiced constraints and dictatorial commands of rational logic, I operate unencumbered by preconceived limitations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

~ Alvi Syahrin

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

~ Avijeet Das

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.

~ Avijeet Das

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

~ Sophia Rose

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

~ Nancy I. Sanders

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

~ Avijeet Das

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

~ Avijeet Das

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

~ Avijeet Das

When I was a schoolgirl my safe haven was a place at the uninhabited part of my parents’ house. I used to climb up to the large windowsill that was facing a spreading plum-tree in the garden. Reading books, or penning my own stories, diaries and poems, it was especially fun to rest there during the warmer seasons of the year with an open window, when the tree was all covered with tender, odorous blossom in spring, and with rich purple fruitage in summer.

~ Sahara Sanders

Write only if you wish to read it again and again...

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

~ Richard Wright

The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.

~ Sahara Sanders

Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can’t say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote

~ Sahara Sanders