99 result(s) for Quotes About Writers.
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
"The writer is both a scribe and a prophet."
"Writing is thinking on paper."
"The writer must wade into water, but the reader is not required to swim."
"To write is to be in a place where you can embrace silence and listen to the unheard."
"Writing is a form of therapy."
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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
"Getting it down is the first step; then you can worry about making it good."
"As a writer, you should not be afraid to be yourself."
"Writers are made of the same stuff as the stories they tell."
"There is no such thing as writing. There is only rewriting."
"To write means to be alive."
"A writer's job is to make the world feel like a better place, not a worse one."
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
"Writing is the painting of the voice."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"A writer’s only responsibility is to his or her art."
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"Good fiction is a kind of alchemy."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
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"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard."
"The greatest part of a writer's time is taken up with his own inadequacy."
"If we don’t tell our stories, they will disappear."
"All great writers are great readers."
"The writer must believe that what he says is not only worth saying, but that it will be heard."
"Every writer is a writer of his age."
"A writer is someone who can make people see what he sees, feel what he feels, and hear what he hears."
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading."
"Writers do not just write; they inspire thought, influence change, and evoke emotion."
"A writer writes not because he wants to say something, but because he has something to say."
"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
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"I’m not a very good writer, but I’m a very good reader."
"A good writer possesses not only his own ideas, but also the ideas of others."
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
"The writer's job is to tell the truth."
"Writers aren't exactly people. They are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."
"A writer only takes that seriously. It is the only sacred thing he has."
"The writer is the creator of the world of the story."
"I think a writer is someone who wants to be heard."
"Writers should be read but never seen."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"The writer's duty is to keep on writing."
"There is no such thing as writer's block; that was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
"The only way to write is to write."
"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect."
"The best thing about writing is that you don’t have to be perfect."
"For a writer, a blank page is a freedom to write or rewrite a thousand stories."
"If it's not on the page, it’s not on the stage."
"The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written."
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else."
"The writer's job is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, and to take sides."
"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
"The writer must find a way to make his world feel like the real world, no matter how strange or surreal."
"The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."
"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make a book."
"One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple."
"To write is human, to edit is divine."
"There is no greater treasure than the one found in books; take the time to be the writer you wished to be."
"A good writer is essentially a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
"Writing is both the act of creation and the act of self-discovery."
"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
"The secret of becoming a writer is to be a reader first."
"You can’t write a book if you don’t read books."
"A writer thinks with his pen."
"The road to hell is paved with adjectives."
"The first draft of anything is shit."
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and the price we pay is high."
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit."
"The writer is the only one who has a chance to be the hero of the story."
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree and then throw rocks at him."
"You can make anything by writing."
"I can’t write without a reader. It’s exactly like a kiss—you can’t do it alone."
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write."
"The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write, and keep writing."
"Writing is like a relationship, it requires consistency and passion."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
"Writing is both a privilege and a responsibility; don’t waste it."
"Writing is a form of truth-telling; you can’t pretend to be something you’re not."
"The only way to learn to be a writer is to write."
"Words are a lens to focus one’s mind."
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
"A writer is just a reader that writes."
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
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