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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by. — Avijeet Das

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

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what's going on around them when they are the center of attention. — Gary Reilly

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

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West

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

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma ... — R.D. Ronald

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

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. — Christy Hall

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

Her words dance on the page. — A.D. Posey

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

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

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize. — Danny Strong

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

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it. — Robert Galbraith

Writing is a way of life. — Kayla Lowe

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone! — Avijeet Das

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

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

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers. — Walter Mosley

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day! — Avijeet Das

Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, — William Zinsser

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

I don't mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don't want to die like one. — Debasish Mridha

I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light. — Fennel Hudson

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money. — Moliere

Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode. — Ben Oliveira

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

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. — Dennis R. Miller

Maybe I write because I've learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech. — Common

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. — Veronica Purcell

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

Give all that you can.
No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day. — Christy Hall

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing. — Fennel Hudson

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. — Jane Yolen

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

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. — A.D. Sams

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert

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

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book. — Daniel Ionson

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it. — William Goldman

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9. — Annalee Newitz

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

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. — Jyoti Arora

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor. — Rockne S. O'Bannon

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character. — Sherwood Schwartz

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

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

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow. — Caron Kamps Widden

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. — Julian Barnes

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. — William Golding

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic. — C.C. Wyatt

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

Rejection is no badge of honour. — Johnny Rich

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

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

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. — Ted Dekker

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 task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. — Craig Raine

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

The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen. — A.D. Posey

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault. — Fennel Hudson

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

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... — Virginia Alison

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up. — B.A. Gabrielle

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

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

The more you focus on fun, the more fun you have. — A.D. Posey

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. — Betsy Lerner

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. — Brian A. McBride

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. — Sanober Khan

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories! — Avijeet Das