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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
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
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
Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
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
Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
— Sherry Thomas
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
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
Give all that you can. No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day. — Christy Hall
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
— Kayla Rae Whitaker
Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
— Fennel Hudson
A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.
— Buffy Andrews
Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.
— Christie Silvers
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
— Jane Yolen
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
I wear the writer pants in the family.
— Buffy Andrews
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
Three words for a writer: Make me care.
— Buffy Andrews
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
— Veronica Purcell
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
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
I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.
— Kay Kenyon
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
— Sanober Khan
Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
— Eveli Acosta
Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.
— Christy Hall
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
— Marti Melville
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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
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The more you focus on fun, the more fun you have.
— A.D. Posey
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
— Brian A. McBride
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
— Caron Kamps Widden
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
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
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
As with writing by candlelight, one's greatest ideas come from 'the flickering' between darkness and light.
— Fennel Hudson
Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.
— William Goldman
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,
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
— Gustave Flaubert
Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
— Fennel Hudson
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
— Daniel Ionson
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.
— Ray Bradbury
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
