Writing By Famous Writers Quotes & Sayings

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read. — Ursula K. Le Guin

That famous writer's block is a myth as far as I'm concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don't want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don't enjoy doing it. I'm not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences. — Gore Vidal

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. — Don DeLillo

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold

You know, when you were three years old, you got lost in the woods and we found you with your head in a foxes den. Sometimes I think very little has changed. I mean, you be a bit taller. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. — Aberjhani

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus. — Daniel Marques

He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear. — Andrew James Pritchard

The border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention. — Jim Butcher

Cloak, does God hate me?" I said. "It depends which god you mean. I've met several." "The Jewish One." "Yes. — C.T. Phipps

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. — Napoleon Hill

I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog — Robin Hawdon

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts! — Kat Graham

I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that. — Herbert Gold

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day - but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you. — Andrew Murray

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. — Mindy Kaling

It is not those things that have been done to us that make us who we are; it is what we choose to do with them. Live, laugh, love, and choose to be fearless. — Catherine Gayle

If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors. — Larry Brooks

A dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ... — John Geddes

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself. — Holliday Grainger

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey