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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
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
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
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
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
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.
— Robert Holdstock
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
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
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
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 footstepsThe whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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 tweet a day keeps writer's block away.
— Buffy Andrews
Come on brain, think of thingsCome on brain, think of things
Come on brain, be so smart — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Three words for a writer: Make me care.
— Buffy Andrews
