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When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
(Marti Melville) — Marti Melville

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. — Matthew McConaughey

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale

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

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased. — Avijeet Das

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

If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on. — Jorge Luis Borges

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it. — Writer's Digest Books

The writer's duty is to keep on writing. — William Styron

Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer's heart. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree. — Rob Bignell, Editor

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

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? — Slash Coleman

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

Writing is a way of life. — Kayla Lowe

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. — Kathleen Rooney

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come. — Shana Chartier

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown. — Janette Turner Hospital

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers. — K. Sean Harris

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. — Stefanos Livos

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

The best kind of day is a writing day — Buffy Andrews

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words... — Avijeet Das

All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable. — Chloe Thurlow

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. — Peter James West

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again. — Michelle M. Pillow

Every book I've read appears in my writing. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer. — D. VonThaer

Write the words on your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it. — Stephen Sondheim

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck. — Joyce Rachelle

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. — Chriscinthia Blount

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. — Wallace Stegner

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market. — Amish Tripathi

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. — Stephen King

Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'. — Fennel Hudson

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour. — Joyce Rachelle

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal — Khaled Talib

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it. — Ruth Rendell

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person. — Richard Wright

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

I wear the writer pants in the family. — Buffy Andrews

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious. — Ray Bradbury

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work. — John Hughes

Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer. — Ernest Hemingway,

Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle. — Fennel Hudson

The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story. — Stephanie Ayers

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window. — Fennel Hudson

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. — Samuel McChord Crothers

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan. — Fennel Hudson

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps. — Leonard Bishop

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one — Jo Linsdell

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah

But what is life without a passion? — Avijeet Das

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. — Francois Mauriac

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. — Johnny Rich

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing — Sol Stein

From my writer's workshop, Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it! — Heather Burch

The story is the story is the story. — Heather O'Brien

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

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

Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, be so smart — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Three words for a writer: Make me care. — Buffy Andrews

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost