Writers Quotes

A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

~ Leslie Austin

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

~ Brian Rock

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

~ Buffy Andrews

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

~ Mark Haddon

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

~ Adam Langer

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

~ Buffy Andrews

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

~ Buffy Andrews

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

~ Buffy Andrews

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

~ Buffy Andrews

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

~ Buffy Andrews

I wear the writer pants in the family.

~ Buffy Andrews

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

~ Graeme Roberts

Do you remember the time, Mike,” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

~ Buffy Andrews

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

~ Brandt Legg

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

~ Brooke Bida

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

~ Umberto Eco

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

~ Rosemary Clement-Moore

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

~ Buffy Andrews

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improve

~ John Steinbeck

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

~ Flannery O'connor

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

~ Kendall Hailey

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

~ Ian Mcewan

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

~ Flannery O'connor

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

~ Chloe Thurlow

When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people's lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts.-Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

~ Anthony Marais

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

~ Anatole France

A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party. It’s also full of demons, like a piñata at a birthday party in a mental hospital. The truth is, it’s demons that keep a tortured writer’s spirit alive, not Tootsie Rolls. Sure they’ll give you a tiny burst of energy, but they won’t do squat for your writing. So treat your demons with the respect they deserve, and with enough prescriptions to keep you wearing pants.

~ Colin Nissan

Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

~ Jeanette Winterson

The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

~ Missy Lyons

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.

~ Helen Bevington

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

~ Charles Bukowski

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.

~ George R.r. Martin

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

~ Rayne Hall

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them

~ George Bernard Shaw

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

~ Carroll Bryant