Top Writers Quotes

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

The pen is mightier than the sword!

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of writing as a form of prayer: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the onl...

Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be a writer. [I said], Tell your daughter three things. Tell h...

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I h...

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.

Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination,ignite in the brilliance of our minds,and are wrought in the work of our hands" -

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!