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Writers will be judged by what they write. — Raymond Carver

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck

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

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. — Julian Barnes

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. — Margaret Atwood

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard
by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off — Archibald MacLeish

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

We are inspired to write by divine force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. — Barbara Kingsolver

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem. — Flannery O'Connor

You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future. — A.D. Posey

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? — Slash Coleman

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

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. — Ralph Keyes

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow

Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that. — Amy Tan

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged. — Ernest Hemingway,

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel. — Kilroy J. Oldster

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. — Tobias Wolff

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. — Rose Tremain

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. — Johnny Rich

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment. — William Zinsser

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. — Sophia Rose

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton — W. H. Auden

Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don't have to go at it alone. — Tethered By Letters

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense? — Rudy Francisco

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie — Susan Marie

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing. — Niall Williams

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. — Jack Jordan

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

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape. — Fennel Hudson

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. — John Steinbeck

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining. — Noel Coward

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. — Norm MacDonald

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

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. — Laurence J. Peter

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

Novelist by day; screenwriter by night. — A.D. Posey

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

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness. — A.D. Posey

(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole. — Sean O'Faolain

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job. — Sara Sheridan

All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing — Carl Henegan

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart. — J.L. Bond

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk. — A.D. Posey

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour. — Joyce Rachelle

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. — Chriscinthia Blount

We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out. — Sai Marie Johnson

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. — Sara Sheridan

A day's brightness is determined by the light in our hearts. — A.D. Posey

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. — Robert E. Howard

By definition he [the writer] cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it — Albert Camus

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett