The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance the farther there is to go and the more there is to say the less time there is to say it.
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.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
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.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.
My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever
The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.
I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volati...
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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 ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b...
There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exceptio...
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories;...