Top Writers Quotes

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel

Writers need each other.

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, a...

Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.

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

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.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

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

The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

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...

That's not writing that's typing.

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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