Quotes about writers-quotes

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever been in my life. … It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It’s like, ‘Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It’s super important for my law!

Authors are sick people.

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

Occupation: WriterOccupational Hazard: Carpel tunnelSolution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical surroundings, a self-directed exploration of their internal and external environment.

A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist and now speaks with an autonomous, ghostly reverberation.

Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A good writer has the creativity to polish the broken piano to tune it up in a right tune. Reading their books is the key to choose your favorite frequencies. Now start vibrating and note it down.

We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

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

Nothing is louder than silence.

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

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

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

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

For as long as I write, I will never be lost.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?

A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on a maze of phrases and paragraphs cemented with your ability to 'knit' your story? Maybe, 'how' is more relevant to provide for your readers a consistent path to build a story from the beginning to the end than 'what' and 'why'. Of course, you are not going to dismiss them. These ones – 'what' and 'why' –, they are pretty damn good too.

From centuries ago before the dawn of civilization, I have been wandering. I am the wanderer. I can't stay at one place. I am destined to wander from place to place!And I keep wandering in search of a nothingness. The river embraces me and guides me to swim inside her and to drink the nectar of love from her bosom. She tells me her secrets and I tell her mine. She makes me sensitive and soft.The mountain greets me with respect and guides me to traverse the rocks and crevices of its body! He is s

In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

Almost as a rule, political dissidents were writers.

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don’t read will for ever stay in the same place.

Write for a cause,NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express,NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED

I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful and amusing reading, it feels like my wings stretch up and blood carries the highest happiness circulating in my veins. I think many writers will understand what I mean by that.

If I'm not a writer, who am I?

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

Write until your idea becomes reality.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating

The worst reviews, by my mind, are those from individuals who enjoy entertaining themselves by writing something bad about books they actually never read, which is as clear as day from what they’re saying. It’s even more puzzling for an author to check some of these “honest” reviewers’ pages and see that they created their profile with one goal in mind; to post you a bad review, as there’s nothing else they wanted to rate.

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.

What they failed to understand was that a creative person can never restrict himself/herself within a particular time-frame. I was no longer a school-going boy. The writer in me revolted – I started to voice my likes and dislikes.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

I write because I want express

Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.

After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one.

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.

That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.

Wear yourself proudly.

Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.

Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere...

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.