Writers Quotes

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

~ Pawan Mishra

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

~ Pawan Mishra

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

~ Pawan Mishra

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

~ Pawan Mishra

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

~ Pawan Mishra

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

~ Pawan Mishra

If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.

~ Kyoko Yoshida

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

~ Henry James

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer’s use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader’s malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspirational writing makes us recognize our own telling character traits and identify our formerly unexpressed thoughts and feelings.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

~ China Miéville

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.

~ Roxane Gay

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

~ A.d. Posey

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

~ A.d. Posey

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading sparks writing.

~ A.d. Posey

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

~ A.d. Posey

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people get offended by what I write, by what I do with my life and by what I say to those they never saw. And they also get offended when told they are too stupid to have the right to judge anyone. These poor souls don't know that respect and intelligence are correlated.

~ Daniel Marques

Most people I meet are stupid. Now, nobody likes to be labeled as stupid because they don’t want to know the truth about themselves, that they’re more useful dead than alive. The vast majority of those that meet me for the first time don’t believe that I’ve worked as a College Professor, or that I make a living as a writer. In fact, many have stopped talking to me because they believe I make a living doing something illegal, something criminal. It’s easier for them to believe that I’m just a criminal, than to accept that I’m one of the most famous bestselling writers in the entire planet. The ones that reach the next level, will ask me if I belong to any secret organization, if I speak to demons or if I channel the dead, or even if I steal information from the internet and other authors. Now, what they can’t see, is that the more they talk such things, the more they show me their real nature. They are very, really very, stupid. They can’t see an elephant in front of their nose; they can’t see an intelligent human being in front of their face; they are indeed very stupid and that’s a fact, not an assumption.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Why do you think you are always right? Asks a dumb person that can't understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

~ Janet Wallach

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners under the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, provides names and addresses. Only, the Novel probes much deeper than history. It has an ideal, and History has none; it is limited by reality. The Novel also holds the stage much longer. (A Woman's Vengeance)

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Stop making excuses and start making history.

~ A.d. Posey

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

History isn't written by the winners OR the losers, it's written by the writers.

~ Alan C. Baird

Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it means to be human, express the indefinable feelings that unite humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

~ A.d. Posey

The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!while pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.

~ Nithin Purple

A pen name is a nickname.

~ A.d. Posey

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

~ A.d. Posey

Every day, live in a way that honors who you are.

~ A.d. Posey

Transform into your dream.

~ A.d. Posey

When is now.

~ A.d. Posey

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.

~ A.d. Posey

Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

~ A.d. Posey