Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Writer.
Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.
T.F. Hodge
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
John Geddes
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Paula Danziger
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.?
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
Nora Roberts
...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.
Coco J. Ginger
A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
Roman Payne
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
Edward Abbey
I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
Steve Maraboli
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
John Green
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Oscar Wilde
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
George Orwell
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985)
Kurt Vonnegut
If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit
Stephen King
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
Virginia Woolf
