Top Writers On Writing Quotes

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

Write only if you wish to read it again and again...

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder...

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be ackn...

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleas...

Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

Far and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fic...

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered...

I think you are talented an passionate, Isabella. More than you think and less than you expect. But there are a lot of people with talent and passion, and many of them never get anywhere. This is only...