Writing Books Quotes

You cannot write if you are not on fire

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A writer is never alone, he is always in conversation with himself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is self-pleasure

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is magic happening on paper

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a like and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

~ Neil Gaiman

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are inspired by divine power to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

~ J. A. Meyer

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.

~ Haruki Murakami

You have enough to create what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.

~ Heena Rathore P.

You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That’s damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when you’re alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help.

~ Bryant A. Loney

? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s such a pity. Some people don’t know how to express themselves, and maybe that’s why they are just readers and not writers, others read a book like chewing a cupcake. That’s too bad. If that was not your cup of tea, leave it there, untouched. Don’t go bash the author for that. But if you really hate the book, why bother telling others. It’s your problem after all. You can give constructive opinions but don’t blame the author for your different tastes and views. Also authors shouldn’t comment on reviews, it sounds unprofessional, even silly. Some busy writers don’t even have time to read what other people say about their work. If someone enjoyed your book, or not, that is irrelevant. If you will continue or not to write something else it doesn´t add to the plate.. Besides, why bother commenting on a review, just read it and shut up. Being it good or bad. So my opinions about authors commenting on reviews is just my opinions after all!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

~ Rob Bignell

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

~ Rob Bignell

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

~ Rob Bignell

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

~ Jo Linsdell

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book has its ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.

~ Lisa J. Shultz

Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes