Top Writers Quotes

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

Writers are born, not created.

Writing "Snugs the Snow Bear" was an exhilerating walk on a beach - I stopped now and then to study the rock pools, put my hand to my forehead, to gaze over the vast ocean, and the tide danced; played...

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me...

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.

There is but one art to omit.