Top Writers On Writing Quotes

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

A cliffhanger is when ...

It kept coming back to joy-- how could I live a life filled with it? And always, the answer that came back to me was Write.... I am here because of the indigenous people of this country, because of th...

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us.

People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect al...

He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this world!

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!

I should be writing ...

I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted...

Write like a motherfucker.

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought...