Writers Quotes

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it.

~ Charles Bukowski

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

I lovehow grown childrenwill still nametheir mothersthe mostbeautiful.It isas though,their eyeshave met the cascadingcurvesand goldensilhouettesof every woman.Yettheir soulsstilldrumto the beat  of theirmother'swarmth and care.

~ A Starry Eyed April

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Occupation: WriterOccupational Hazard: Carpel tunnelSolution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

~ Christy Hall

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

~ Christy Hall

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

~ Christy Hall

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

~ Alan Moore

Laughter lights up the darkness.

~ A.d. Posey

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

~ A.d. Posey

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

~ Henry Green

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

~ Margaret Atwood

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing an

~ Junot Díaz

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

~ Susan Sontag

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

~ Margaret Chittenden

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

~ Stephen King

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

~ Oscar Wilde

we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.

~ Tahereh Mafi

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

~ Sylvia Plath

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

~ William Saroyan

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

~ William S. Burroughs

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

~ Junot Díaz

Writers turn dreams into print.

~ James A. Michener

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

~ Rod Serling

All writers are insane!

~ Cornelia Funke

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

~ William Faulkner

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

~ P.d. James

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

~ A. Lee Martinez

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

~ Terry Pratchett

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

~ William Faulkner

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

~ Thiruvalluvar

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

~ Shūsaku Endō