528 quotes found
“You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.”
“I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense...”
“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”
“A writers amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist and now speaks with an autonomous, ghost...”
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of...”
“No one is polite to writers.”
“Didnt we option this ones spec? Producer One asks Producer Two, using his Italian-loafered foot to prod the eviscerated writer in question.Theres a whole pile of them.Dead writers, that is.Most of ...”
“You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went Poor sod. Heres a five star review so you dont hang yourself in the garage.”
“I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.”
“It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. ...”
“What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicabl...”
“As so often happens in my strange writing process, after weeks of distraction; of not thinking about the book at all; yesterday I started writing before the sun was up, or coffee was made. Whipped ...”
“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink, he knows that even to have written this little is an excess, it is an overflowing, ...”
“Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.”
“You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.”
“Writers Block? Get out and have fun. Love yourself. No use frowning and buying anti-wrinkle cream after.”
“The fluid boundary between individuals and types is a true concern of the real writer.”
“Writing which flows is more like play than work!”
“Writing is like scrambling up a hill on all fours; you arrive halfway up, and you are committed - you want to reach the summit, yet you must stop, to gather your strength and will. When you have cl...”
“Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.”
