Top Writer Quotes

Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting stories other writers did not, precisely because she wasn't fussy about how she lived. In the last tw...

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

Writer Definition

(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost

A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in the world.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized...

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

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

You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yoursel...

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight in...

But how? my students ask. How do you actually do it? You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creati...

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and d...

It's easier said than done but when you feel yourself out of balance within, stop in that present moment and catch your breathe. Remind yourself of 5 things, that help you feel most alive and re-centr...