Writers Quotes

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

~ Nora Ephron

Novelist by day, screenwriter by night.

~ A.d. Posey

How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.

~ Angela Thirkell

Writers don't have bad life days, they just have good research days.

~ Julie Wright

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

~ Ha Jin

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

~ Jt Sanz

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

~ Priya Parmar

The key is in the craft.

~ A.d. Posey

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins.

~ A.d. Posey

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

~ A.d. Posey

Write before the sun comes up.

~ A.d. Posey

Own your truth.

~ A.d. Posey

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s always more than just a story.

~ A.d. Posey

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

~ A.d. Posey

Take your ego out of your story.

~ A.d. Posey

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

~ Chris Mentillo

Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of jealousy. The man or woman who for the sake of family life, children, takes up work he does not like, disciplines himself, sacrifices some fantasy he had once, to travel or to paint, or even possibly to write, may feel toward the artist and writer a jealousy of his adventurous life. The artist and the writer have generally paid the full price for their independence and for the privilege of doing work they love, or for their artistic rebellions against standardized living or values.

~ Anaïs Nin

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!

~ Chinese Fortune Cookie

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

~ Jimmy Buffett

Life is sacred story.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

~ Kevin Cowdall

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

~ Jayden Hunter

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

~ Jt Sanz

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

~ Chris Mentillo

So she's one of the grande dames of fandom? The Madame de Staël of the Starveil world?

~ Danika Stone

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

~ Rod Serling

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

~ Robert Black

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

~ Richard Ford

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we're going to for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.

~ Anne Lamott

I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.

~ K. D. Green

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Life is a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being a famous writer is great. But there is a limit for it. For what extend can you be famous, and what would you achieve? True, your books will be best sellers, your blog writings and tweets will be hits, fans will love you, and what next? We all die to reach ‘there’ as budding writers, but once we reach ‘it’, we think, what next? Is this what we wanted all our lives? To grab all the leading awards, write best sellers, to be loved, to be known and heard? Will they help us achieve inner peace? I believe the utmost important thing is achieving inner peace, not money and fame. A writer should write to achieve inner peace forgetting all other things. Money, fame, fans are not going to last forever, but inner peace is.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita