Top Writers Quotes

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so...

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Writing is like scrambling up a hill on all fours; you arrive halfway up, and you are committed - you want to reach the summit, yet you must stop, to gather your strength and will. When you have climb...

Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like tr...

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.