Quotes about writers

All authors go to heaven we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page it takes place in your head.

There is an audience for everything our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker they need it to take the edge off.

Writers were a strange sort I knew that much from the newspapers.

The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic role in society their mythmaking voices speak to us from the underworld after their passage to the other side. Writers place themselves in a trance-like state where their unconscious mind dictates to them what to write.

Writers express their thoughts through words designers express their hearts through designs that speak words.

You’re with you 24/7 you must love you the most.

Be an artist you can get away with anything.

Signs don’t shout they whisper.

The best writing is embarrassing that’s all there is to it.

Writers don't have bad life days they just have good research days.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read the living ones can use the money.

There are two kinds of writers those that make you think and those that make you wonder.

People visit exposed and vulnerable writers live there

The most difficult thing about writing is writing the first line.

Ruth Cole was a novelist novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing.

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud and the world overhears them

Writers do not find subjects subjects find them.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

History isn't written by the winners OR the losers it's written by the writers.

Love doesn’t make you a poet it makes you poetry.

Every day’s to-do list.1.)Listen2.)Trust3.)Do

Artistes breathe and dream creativity!

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

Shame is a state of mind.

I'm going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

I write amongst the stars, and the canvased paper moon. I paint the fields of green, sprinkling morning dew. I teach the birds to sing, a tweet, a tweet, times two. And when my busy day is done, I dream sweet dreams of you.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Your life should reflect your heart.

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

Listen to what speaks to your heart.

Create from the heart.

I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think?

Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away.

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good.

Pour your heart onto the page.

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.

The heart of a story gives it life.

Write from the heart… always.

Listen when your heart speaks.

Hold on to your heart and life will give you wings.

When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's delusions. Now, I don't know about the true things or the not-true things, because there seem to be so many of them, but I do know about Mother's delusions, and they're solid. They range from the conviction that the waffle iron, unless watched, is going to strangle the toaster, to the delusion that electricity pours out of an empty socket onto your head, and nothing is going to change any one

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, “Let’s be dragons,” and then they’re dragons for an hour or two. It is escapism of the most admirable kind—the game played for the game’s sake. On another level, it is still a game, but a game played for very high stakes. Seen thus, as art, not spontaneous play, its affinity is not with daydream, but with dream. It is a different approach to reality,

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

Explore your own peace.

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.

Find peace in knowing.

Love is the answer.

A pen name is a nickname.

Look upon the world with wonder.

It’s a new world. Stand up.

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.

Writers wake up the world.

The world is blessed to welcome you.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

Open your arms to the world.

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world.

Be what the world needs.

Don’t let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

The world is with you.

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allott

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation ca

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter.Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred to my lips.A name I won’t throw around lightheartedly or repeat without deep thought.And if ever I speak of you, I use the English language to describe who you were to me. You are nameless, because those letters grouped together in that

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight for their words. They have to choose to write, choose words over distractions, and their characters over their friends. Great writers can be lonely, exhausted souls. But through our characters, we live.