Writers Quotes

Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.

~ Himanshu Chhabra

Writing is a sacred passion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are writing the history of our time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is a holy occupation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must begin writing your life book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing!I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to the souls longing for it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

~ Jenim Dibie

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

~ Sanober Khan

i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.

~ Sanober Khan

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

~ Tawny Lara

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

~ Marti Melville

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

~ T.j. Mihaila

She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.

~ Jeanette Winterson

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

~ Edward Hirsch

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

~ Sara Sheridan

I write to shed my sacred sorrows.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can’t help but to wonder with my thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind, my sacred-duty is the writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is the greatest solitude

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The riches of adversity, we were made thinkers and writers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

~ Tawny Lara

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

~ Tawny Lara

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

~ Tawny Lara

They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.

~ Shana Chartier

Be a burst of joy.

~ A.d. Posey

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

~ Shannon L. Alder

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

~ Brandi L. Bates

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper. (The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi)

~ Rikki Ducornet

You have seven writers in your basement?”Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much trouble.

~ Susan Wiggs

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist’s couch or even the lovers’ bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.

~ Martin Amis

One thing an early-on writer has to learn, is to be comfortable with and responsive to critique. When five people in a group tell you this chapter sucks; don’t snap back at them with, “Sure, but it gets better in another 6 or 7 chapters!”Listen. – Thank them. – Consider.They can look from a fresh perspective, and catch things that you might be too close to see.But, you will also learn along the way that not everyone in a group of relative amateurs themselves, is going to catch everything, and there will be a few who seem to never understand much of anything.Some will always want paragraphs chopped down to explosive missiles of passion, while others are more used to long composite paragraphs that I myself find impossible to wade through.You may, once you have hit your full stride and power, feel comfortable telling a few of them, “Look. This isn’t a diner. I don’t take orders: ‘I’m gluten intolerant; he can’t do salt; she’s allergic to peanuts ...’“If what I offer is a salad bar, then No; I am not going to fry you up a cheesesteak!

~ Edward Fahey

Best seller material, and she didn’t have to write a single word.

~ A.l. Mabry

Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.

~ Flannery O'connor

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

I am convinced that if stories such as these have any lasting value, it is in revealing the kind of work young pulp-writers were doing in those days when rates were low and one had to make a typewriter smoke in order to keep eating.

~ Hugh B. Cave

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

~ A.d. Posey