Writers Quotes

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create...

I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.

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

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens ...

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecess...

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops d...

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

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is...

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reig...

I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look a...

Writting turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday ...

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning ...

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...

Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession,' said the police car, as if ...

The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the...

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy o...

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must se...

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-eviden...

Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ...

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

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our he...

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled ...

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled ...

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the...

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in...

There is but one art to omit.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without pri...

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to th...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

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

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

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is...

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go...

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When an...

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, ca...

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not oblige...

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead ...

Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strik...

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.

Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the par...

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zanines...

Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the ...

There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption i...

We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upo...

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside...

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking o...

So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxie...

I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically corre...

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't ha...

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any lo...

The truth is that most writers are needy.

He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusi...

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell ...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itsel...

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with ...

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical cla...

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to ...

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light,...

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

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 20...

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, ...

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

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better...

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors ...

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

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

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, mi...

That's not writing that's typing.

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

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long tim...

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to pre...