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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

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

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

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

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way! — 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

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

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse. — Christy Hall

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

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 writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone. — Tina Fey

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

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

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot. — James Salter

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

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

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

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

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write. — Christy Hall

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine. — Sam Shepard

I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world. — Kay Kenyon

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right. — Amy Joy

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are. — Lori Lesko

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. — Sanober Khan

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! — Avijeet Das

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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