Writers Quotes

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

Meagan Spooner

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

David Foster Wallace

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Brian Keene

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

Darnell Lamont Walker

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

Coco J. Ginger

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

Haruki Murakami

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

John Geddes

Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing.Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle.A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth.Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination.

Coco J. Ginger

If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Alfred Kazin

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Jaf Liethers

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

Chriscinthia Blount

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

Vicktor Alexander

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Michelle Geaney

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Woody Allen

A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.

Chitralekha Paul

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani