Top Writers Quotes

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glu...

The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orato...

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be viol...

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or those who look hot in their author pics. Please can we also stop dissolving in...

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

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

Writing has power but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind but they can't direct it. Time changes things God changes things the dictators change things but writers can't change anyt...

Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So is how it feels,' and I would tie it up...

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

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.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.