94 result(s) for Writers Quotes.
"The best way to not become a writer is to have a good job."
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write, and keep on writing."
"I writers the way I am, not the way I think I should be."
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
"A great poet is a greater liar than a great novelist."
"I can’t write without a reader. It’s like a trapdoor I open to let you in."
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"There is no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
"The writer is the one who will generate the whole universe of the text."
"A novelist is a storyteller who uses the long form."
"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."
"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
"I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane."
"The writer is both a sadist and a masochist."
"A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing."
"The most beautiful things are those that madness produces and we call them art."
"Every writer is a writer of a certain time and place, and we share that time and place with our readers."
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
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"Writing is the painting of the voice."
"The secret of being a writer is to write, and that is why we write."
"Writers aren’t born; they’re made. We are the sum of our experiences."
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable."
"A good writer is not necessarily a good thinker, but he is a good thinker’s best chance."
"The hardest part about writing is getting to the end of a sentence."
"You don’t know what you can do until you try."
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
"To write is to write is to write."
"I am a writer. I am the only one who can tell my story."
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"The writer's job is to make the world a little less like it is and a little more like it should be."
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
"The only way to write is to write."
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"There is no such thing as a good writer, only a good rewriter."
"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."
"The best thing about writing is that you can do it wherever you are: a café, a park, your couch."
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
"Every writer is a writer of a place."
"The only kind of writing is rewriting."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say."
"Words are a lens to focus one’s mind."
"A writer is approachable. A writer is not writing to impress people; a writer is writing to reveal."
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
"I think the best way to write is to write in a way that doesn’t feel like writing."
"Writers have to dive deep into themselves and come out with a little piece of truth, something that has validity and a meaning."
"The first draft of anything is shit."
"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
"The only way to deal with writer's block is to write."
"Writing is a form of therapy."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"We are all writers; we are just waiting to write."
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
"The secret of being a good writer is to say: 'I am a writer.'"
"There is no such thing as writer's block; that was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
"A writer is someone who can make you cry with joy."
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
"It is better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
"The more you read, the more you can write."
"Good writing is essentially rewriting."
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
"Write what should not be forgotten."
"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard."
"Stories are the immersive DNA of our lives."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
"The writer is the one who dreams and then writes down the dream."
"We are all writers. We just need a place to tell our stories."
"To write is to be human; to live, to have experience."
"You can make anything by writing."
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"There is no perfect time to write. You simply do it."
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
"The true writer has no choice; he must write."
"Writing is its own reward."
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
"Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
"It is my belief that writers are to portray the human condition—at its best and worst."
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
"To write is to live twice."
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"Writing is its own kind of magic—you're crafting worlds that didn't exist before."
"Every writer is a writer of the hybrid field, continuously trying to lend voice to their own mystery."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work."
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