Writers Quotes - Page 15

A writer's courage: to leave a blank page blank.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

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.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

We create words, words create wonders.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Every writer knows that words are the enemy.

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

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have - the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.