Top Writers Quotes

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.

Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

I'm not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I'm a writer, and entitled to all that with pride.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

I write because I know magic happens

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your should...

He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an inte...

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does n...

A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It...

Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.

Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.