Writers World Quotes

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is self-pleasure

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is magic happening on paper

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a like and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

~ Rossana Condoleo

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

~ A.k. Kuykendall

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

~ W.p. Kinsella

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

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

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

~ Neel Burton

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

~ Olive Schreiner

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

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

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

~ Rob Bignell

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

~ Rob Bignell

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

~ Day Parker

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

~ Christy Hall

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

~ Christy Hall

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

~ Christy Hall

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

~ Buffy Andrews

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

~ Buffy Andrews

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

~ Buffy Andrews

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

~ Buffy Andrews

I wear the writer pants in the family.

~ Buffy Andrews

Do you remember the time, Mike,” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

~ Buffy Andrews

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

~ Carroll Bryant