Writer Quotes - Page 7

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

I became a writer when I learnt how to read - how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life; the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven’t done enough.

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.