Writers Quotes - Page 14

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.