Writers Quotes - Page 6

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.

You cannot write unless you write much.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.-the people of Lake Woebegon

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn’t fill him with the same enthusiasm

And so I just kept writing to myself.

Persistence can look a lot like stupid.

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.