Writers Quotes

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.