Writers Quotes

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

~ James Salter

[EM] Forster was the only living writer whom he would have described as his master. In other people’s books he found examples of style which he wanted to imitate and learn from. In Forster he found a key to the whole art of writing. The Zen masters of archery—of whom, in those days, Christopher had never heard—start by teaching you the mental attitude with which you must pick up the bow. A Forster novel taught Christopher the mental attitude with which he must pick up the pen.

~ Christopher Isherwood

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

~ Beem Weeks

Trust me. What a phrase. Is it a phrase or an idiom? I was never a wordsmith and I was too far along in life to even attempt to tackle a problem as complicated as words. Do writers struggle as much with words as a painter does with his paint and his brush?“Okay,” it is impossible not to trust a beautiful woman. Even macho noir anti-heroes who talk about staying out of trouble and doin’ nothin’ for nobody always get sucked into intricate snares set for them by beautiful women… I would not be an exception.

~ Bruce Crown

She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper—and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.

~ A.d. Posey

Why people become writers??It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and they want to show people a new world. So they create it!Why people watch films??Because they want to feel the taste of the reality!Everything is logical, think before you ask!

~ Deyth Banger

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

~ Don Roff

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

~ Daniel Marques

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

~ Steven Pinker

Is every writer's keyboard a spill magnet?

~ A.d. Posey

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

~ A.d. Posey

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

~ A.d. Posey

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

~ A.d. Posey

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

~ A.d. Posey

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

~ A.d. Posey

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

~ A.d. Posey

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.

~ A.d. Posey

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

~ A.d. Posey

Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.

~ A.d. Posey

You’re with you 24/7, you must love you the most.

~ A.d. Posey

Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

~ A.d. Posey

There’s nothing like the gift of understanding.

~ A.d. Posey

When we hear our souls speak, we are free.

~ A.d. Posey

Every painting tells a story.

~ A.d. Posey

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.

~ A.d. Posey

Be the spark.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s great to be here.

~ A.d. Posey

Love is the universal language.

~ A.d. Posey

Everything that is old was once new.

~ A.d. Posey

Work with yourself.

~ A.d. Posey

I’d rather be a fool than afraid.

~ A.d. Posey

Love is the miracle of life.

~ A.d. Posey

Love is growing up.

~ A.d. Posey

Allow your mood to be sweet and your day will be sweet too.

~ A.d. Posey

A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.

~ A.d. Posey