Writers Quotes Quotes

A voice is a product of the writer’s own Pandora Box of insight, insecurities, bravado, modesty, humility, affection, understanding, and confidence. In short, a voice reflects the writers’ sangfroid. The tenor of the writer’s voice also reflects their insecurities, self-doubt, egotism, testiness, and the ability to identify with their mental and physical infirmities. The inflection that distinguishes a writer’s pitch from other wordsmiths’ tone reflects their collective lifetime of mundane, tranquil, disturbing, and passionate experiences.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

~ Gina Mcknight

Time heals all wounds, some broken hearts -- and most cases of writer's block.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.

~ Fennel Hudson

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

~ Solange Nicole

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

~ T.a. Uner

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

~ Fennel Hudson

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

~ Rob Bignell

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

~ M.e. Vaughan

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

~ Don Roff

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

~ Christy Hall

Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.

~ Christy Hall

As a writer, I like the list of things to strive for that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorous dramatization of story

~ Richard Yates

I don’t do math.

~ Buffy Andrews

I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.

~ Buffy Andrews

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

~ Buffy Andrews

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

~ Buffy Andrews

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

~ Buffy Andrews

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

~ Buffy Andrews

You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse, write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty of readers who can relate. Remember writers write.

~ Stanley Christopher

Me to characters: talk to me people.

~ Buffy Andrews

Good editors are priceless.

~ Buffy Andrews

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

~ Buffy Andrews

A cliffhanger is when ...

~ Buffy Andrews

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

~ Buffy Andrews

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

~ Caron Kamps Widden

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have ‘talent.

~ M. Kirin

In order to be heard, an author must have readers...

~ Rachel Heffington

I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.

~ Christy Hall

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.

~ Sai Marie Johnson

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.

~ Christy Hall

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

~ Carla H. Krueger

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

~ Carla H. Krueger

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

~ Carla H. Krueger

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?

~ Rainbow Rowell

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

~ Julie Rodelli

How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on a maze of phrases and paragraphs cemented with your ability to 'knit' your story? Maybe, 'how' is more relevant to provide for your readers a consistent path to build a story from the beginning to the end than 'what' and 'why'. Of course, you are not going to dismiss them. These ones – 'what' and 'why' –, they are pretty damn good too.

~ Frederick Vanderbuilt