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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust. — David Aylward

Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality
Poor, Hungry and Driven. — Trish Jackson

Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists, — Yann Martel

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. — James Thurber

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. — Tracy Keenan Wynn

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. — T.J. Mihaila

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith

The reader wants to be able to see the book as if they are watching a movie. — LaQuita Cameron

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job. — Clark Gregg

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day. — Jason E. Hodges

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. — Cyril Connolly

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms. — Ron Brackin

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you. — William Zinsser

We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too. — Monica Millner

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. — Abraham Verghese

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed, — Roger Kahn

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true. — David A. Adler

Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing. — Brian K. Vaughan

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies. — Val Edward Simone

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. — Flannery O'Connor

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything. — Gloria Steinem

...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers. — Kate Berridge

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you. — Avijeet Das

Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work. — Jason E. Hodges

Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place. — Jason E. Hodges

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. — W. Somerset Maugham

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. — Gabriel Fielding

I'm bookbrained-the act of book obsession common in writers. Not to be confused with bookbrains, a delicacy for zombies when eating the former. — Zara Steen

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It ends when you're ready for a new beginning. — A.D. Posey

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. — Carla H. Krueger

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher

I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think? — A.D. Posey

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? — Hal Duncan

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps. — Joyce Rachelle

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 think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. — Barry Mann

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money. — Greg Curtis

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme. — Damon Galgut

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one. — Marty Rubin

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for. — Robin Thede

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. — Quintilian

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton — W. H. Auden

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write. — Mary Lambert

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. — Anatole Broyard

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. — Edward Hirsch

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. — Mohsin Hamid

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. — Alton Brown

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design. — Malorie Blackman

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker

There is no time for holding back. — A.D. Posey

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing is taking the demons out for a walk. — Gwen Calvo

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse. — Buffy Andrews

Reading for writers is like training for athletes. — Linda Sue Park

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves. — Darynda Jones

'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety. — Gregory Benford

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. — Kathleen Turner

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. — Charles Bukowski

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. — Rossana Condoleo

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail. — Jessie Snow

People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK. — Millicent Ashby

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse. — Natalya Vorobyova

For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome. — Martin Luther

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers. — Ryne Sandberg

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire! — Christy Hall

The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, "The strength of your book is your villain." How — Debra Dixon

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems. — Jessa Crispin

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever. — John Baldessari

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed. — Don Roff

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. — Shanda Trofe

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. — Horace Walpole

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other. — Amit Chaudhuri

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong