Top Writers Quotes

Life is uncertain.Today you get a rose.Tomorrow you feel the thorns.But the end result is red, always!!

Writers should be heard, not seen.

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about t...

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities:...

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

In the equation of life, the limit does not exist.

Be the energy you want others to absorb.

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques, and Christian/Catholic churches should focus on bringing peace in...

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This...

The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is the...

For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite cha...

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.