Top Writers Quotes

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.

Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in...

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will lear...

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other.