Writer Quotes - Page 2

Forget about how old you are, and get busy.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Writer is a Film Director of letters.

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.

You were meant to write this book.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Ljubav se moze pojaviti u najcudnijim oblicima.Zato je i cesto pomesamo sa necim sto ljubav nikada nece biti.

From the beginning, I’ve told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I’m the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel.

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

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Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other room. Then your night life started getting more interesting and complicated, and climbing out of bed became harder and harder. You were gathering experience for a novel. You went to parties with writers, cultivated a writerly persona. You wanted to be Dylan Thomas without the paunch. F. Scott Fitzgerald without the crack-up. You wanted to skip over the dull grind of actual creation.

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

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

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?

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. ""Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry.""Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer."Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed."But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.