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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
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 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
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
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan
Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.
— Niall Williams
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
(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
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