Top Writers Quotes

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force somethin...

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.

To those that don't believe I'm worth more than what they think of other authors, to hell with them. Call me arrogant and call the police of politeness on me if you wish, because I won't stop until an...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...

Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they breathe. For me, writing is a natural reflex to the beauty, the events, and the peopl...

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spr...

Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this pas...

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!