Writers Quotes Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud. — Truman Capote

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me. — Christy Hall

When we hear our souls speak, we are free. — A.D. Posey

Don't confuse the darkness that's leaving with the light that's coming in. — A.D. Posey

The so called beautiful people, especially the ones who are obsessed with their looks, bore me. They just have this superficiality in all things that they do or want to accomplice in life. It is like they want to look 'beautiful' all the time but not 'be beautiful' from within. I like depth. People who go deep into the way of things and the meaning of life. People who may not look beautiful but are truly beautiful! — Avijeet Das

All writers start out writing badly, but with diligence and determination, we all get better. It's then that writing becomes truly fun and always engaging. When you no longer have to worry about how you write, you can start thinking about what to write. — Theo Fenraven

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book. — Arvind Parashar

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went. — M.E. Vaughan

Make your writing memorable. — A.D. Posey

We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us! — Avijeet Das

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts. — A.D. Posey

It's our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives. — Derric Yuh Ndim

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words. — Jack Kerouac

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson. — Christy Hall

No.'
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering. — Christy Hall

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out. — Sai Marie Johnson

A voice is a product of the writer's own Pandora Box of insight, insecurities, bravado, modesty, humility, affection, understanding, and confidence. In short, a voice reflects the writers' sangfroid. The tenor of the writer's voice also reflects their insecurities, self-doubt, egotism, testiness, and the ability to identify with their mental and physical infirmities. The inflection that distinguishes a writer's pitch from other wordsmiths' tone reflects their collective lifetime of mundane, tranquil, disturbing, and passionate experiences. — Kilroy J. Oldster

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. — Ann Marie Frohoff

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. — A.D. Posey

Creativity is divine. — A.D. Posey

To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

A cliffhanger is when ... — Buffy Andrews

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

Who knows, maybe one day there will no longer be Literature. Instead there will be literary web sites. Like those stars, still shining but long dead, the web sites will testify to the existence of past writers. There will be quotes, fragments of texts, which prove that there used to be complete texts once. Instead of readers there will be cyber space travelers who will stumble upon the websites by chance and stop for a moment to gaze at them. How they will read them? Like hieroglyphs? As we read the instructions for a dishwasher today? Or like remnants of a strange communication that meant something in the past, and was called Literature? — Dubravka Ugresic

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can. — A.D. Posey

She has a beautiful heart that plays a euphonious symphony. She is the Zahir that touches your Soul. — Avijeet Das

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want. — Christy Hall

You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most. — A.D. Posey

all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper. — Eveli Acosta

Don't we all look up at the same stars? — A.D. Posey

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse. — Quentin R. Bufogle

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

If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light. — Mylo Carbia

My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope! — Avijeet Das

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. — David Chuka

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. — Fennel Hudson

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... — Virginia Alison

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch. — Lili St. Crow

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look. — A.D. Posey

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble! — Buffy Andrews

If you don't humiliate yourself, you don't live. — A.D. Posey

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge — Derric Yuh Ndim

when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older. — Derric Yuh Ndim

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them! — Samuel Colbran

Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn't get a lot of encouragement from friends, although my family were great supporters. I also had many ... what you would call "mind-boggling" moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.
All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a children's book that I am proud of, and an unforgettable little girl that will touch the hearts of many."-Nina Jean Slack — Nina Jean Slack

The story becomes clearer with time. — A.D. Posey

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now ... — Belle Whittington

In the equation of life, the limit does not exist. — A.D. Posey

In the end, we begin. — A.D. Posey

A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own stylishness. She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue's memory. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. — A.D. Posey

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. — Alan Dapre

Love is growing up. — A.D. Posey

Art translates human souls. Each passing eon's public display of sophisticated hieroglyphics cast a unique depiction upon the rudimentary art of survival. Humankind cannot exist without the makeshift paradigm of innovative art, which genuine amoeba expresses elusive and unsayable thoughts. Humankind's gallery of artistic impressions ranges from the starkness of personified cave drawings to the free ranging lexis of modern art. Collection of multihued stories of the ages portrays the vivid panoply of enigmatic vitas etched by humankind's self-imposed sense of urgency. Each passing generation's effusion of trope offerings seamlessly folds its shared renderings into the shimmering panorama of the cosmos, the sparkling nightscape that houses the intangible life force all communal souls. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Be the sun breaking through the clouds. — A.D. Posey

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last — William Blake

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. — Rob Bignell, Editor

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call. — A.K. Kuykendall

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman's voice. — Roman Payne

I'll pray for good semen. And I'll get all of my friends to pray for good semen. — Buffy Andrews

So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility. — Avijeet Das

Writing is like breathing for my soul. — A.D. Posey

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

The key is in the craft. — A.D. Posey

A fiery spirit bursts from your soul. — A.D. Posey

The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Climax: It's all downhill from here. — Buffy Andrews

Explore your own peace. — A.D. Posey

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind. — K.D. Green

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens. — A.D. Posey

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better. — Buffy Andrews

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by. — Avijeet Das

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling! — Christy Hall

Life isn't life without real butter. — A.D. Posey

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace. — A.D. Posey

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it? — A.D. Posey

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! — Darnaya Darice

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away. — Buffy Andrews

All answers to life's key questions are found within. — A.D. Posey

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter. — A.D. Posey

Listen to what the sky is telling you. — A.D. Posey

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become. — A.D. Posey

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see? — A.D. Posey

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. — Airam

A day of rest yields a hundred days of progress. — A.D. Posey

In life, be a kid in a candy store. — A.D. Posey

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow. — A.D. Posey

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author. — C. JoyBell C.

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration. — Vincent Louis Carrella

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book. — E.A. Bucchianeri