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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
— H.L. Mencken
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
— Anamika Mishra
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
— Roxane Gay
I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
— Shannon A. Thompson
Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.
— Avijeet Das
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
— Catherynne M Valente
Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
— Fennel Hudson
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
— Chris Campanioni
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
— William Zinsser
Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!
— Sara Sheridan
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
— Avijeet Das
Vengeance is ours saith the Lord and the writers.
— Stanley Christopher
Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.
— Jason E. Hodges
It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.
— Tom McCarthy
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
— Hope Edelman
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
— Roseanne Barr
Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
— Fennel Hudson
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.
— William Zinsser
Don't let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are.
— A.D. Posey
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
— Veronica Purcell
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
— Fennel Hudson
I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again
— Anamika Mishra
No.'It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering. — Christy Hall
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.
— Thomas Swick
Find what speaks to your energy and live it.
— A.D. Posey
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
— Robert M. Pirsig
He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room.
— Enrique Vila-Matas
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
— Marti Melville
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
— Marianne Williamson
The word is a violent pleasure.
— Gwen Calvo
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
— Mel Brooks
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
— Sigmund Freud
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
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
— Caron Kamps Widden
Stop making excuses and start making history.
— A.D. Posey
Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
— John Steinbeck
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
— Mary Lawrence
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
— Sara Sheridan
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
— Julian Barnes
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
— Gustave Flaubert
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren't writing, don't.
— Ernest Hemingway,
As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light.
— Fennel Hudson
To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
— Alejandro Zambra
Live spiritually and you'll be fine.
— A.D. Posey
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
— Anne Lamott
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
— A.D. Posey
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
— Fennel Hudson
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
— Christopher Rice
