Top Writers Quotes

Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm una...

When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of them that believes--nay, knows--the world turns for the...

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in...

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

We encounter truth within.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting...

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your...