Writers Quotes - Page 2

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

We all have a vision, a dream to hope for.
Some chase it and some wish upon it..
Who do you think, wins?
the chaser finds ways to create it, regardless of the fight, the wisher finds way to excuse it, because courage doesn't fill their hearts.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.