Top Writers Quotes

I write because I want to give strength to myself

For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy person would carve out a very private, quiet place in the world, only to pour his/her innermost tho...

Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get...

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in the...

Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

It is a sobering thought that each of us gives his hearers and his readers a chance to look into the inner working of his mind when he speaks or writes.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore,...

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.