Top Writers Quotes

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of...

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours w...

I write because I believe

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

How do I get inspired? Life.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

Writer does nothing,But think deeply.

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

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

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Fundamentally all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying about the brief flicker of time we have here and the frustrations that it creates.

Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

How can you write if you can't cry?

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where t...

Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer withou...

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them