Top Writers Quotes

All writers are insane!

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet f...

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks s...

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my...

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

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

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Writing is a sacred passion.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other book...

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

Writers are the ink of society

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.