Top Writers On Writing Quotes

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...

If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; howev...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

I write to believe in goodness.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses....

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!

A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds th...

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...

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you writ...

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues...

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

I and my silences keep talking to each other.

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.