Writers Quotes - Page 9

How do I get inspired? Life.

Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.

Surviving a stupor of madness,
drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

I must kill some memories,
the heavy ones first and after
make righteous of my un-even soul.

I have witness the stars brighter
than a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write 'until death do us part.

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you!

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.