Top Writers Quotes

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.

If a man means his writing seriously he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of ba...

I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Art is long and life is short.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publish...

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of t...

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.