Top Writers Quotes

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar sit...

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement.

Write something even if it's just a suicide note.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttl...

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everythi...

In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine...

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a...

Trust the tale, not the teller.