Top Writers Quotes

I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

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...

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the smo...

I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

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.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people. Only we realize in truth that in order to improve the quality of literat...

It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A g...

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, r...

Writers need each other.

I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

Write until your idea becomes reality.