The writer's duty is to keep on writing
William Styron
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not sh...
JOAN DIDION Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't ha...
STEPHEN KING There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
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TONI MORRISON If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly wh...
KAREN LUELLEN Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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MARTIN AMIS I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all...
EUDORA WELTY When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...
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JT SANZ After finishing 1st draft of a novel, I have the characters, dialogue, scenes, and a plotline. I use...
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JT SANZ Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, s...
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VIRGINIA ALISON Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.
CHLOE THURLOW I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have do...
JAMES J. KILPATRICK Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
AVIJEET DAS Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Go...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
DAN BROWN Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
ARTHUR FREED In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
E.B. WHITE Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down you...
SOHIL ASHVIN SHAH We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning...
BORIA SAX If one can, anyone can.
If two can, you can, too!
NANCY I. SANDERS Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
A. LEE MARTINEZ Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
PHILIP SIDNEY Before there were books, we read each other.
LISA CRON Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader....
OWEN WISTER Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn'...
CHRISTY HALL Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing soci...
KILROY J. OLDSTER John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
JONATHAN DEE Ink, a Drug.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the aut...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
AMY JOY I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.
CHRISTY HALL I have voices in my head
I'm a slave to imaginary people
I feel what they feel
I expe...
CHARISSE SPIERS Write only if you wish to read it again and again...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mi vida estuvo siempre perturbada por una maraña de trampas, gambetas e ilusiones para burlar los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.
ROBERT GALBRAITH Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
JULIA CAMERON Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for thei...
AVIJEET DAS I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everyt...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL My job as a writer is simple.
Write a book I’m proud of,
and present it as a gift to the...
KATHLEEN BALDWIN I say to the writers, please keep writing for us, we're very interesting. And to the directors, plea...
NICOLE KIDMAN The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANçOIS MAURIAC After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
JOHNNY RICH The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
TERRY MCMILLAN A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind; my sacred-duty is the writing.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; li...
AGONA APELL I should be writing ...
MUR LAFFERTY Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.
CHRISTIE SILVERS I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a profession...
KURT VONNEGUT This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, pre...
STEPHEN KING The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...
WILLIAM STYRON We try to get them comfortable here with the idea of writing, and keep them writing when they leave....
ED WILKS My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. KATHLEEN BALDWIN All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that s...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person gathers all their resources to compose a foursquare philosophy for surviving each day, an e...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Ah, o estilo... Você não saberá o que é ter "butterflies in the stomach", novamente, até ter ci...
PABLO B.P. SANTOS Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone...
JOHN GREEN Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in m...
JINCY WILLETT As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at tim...
AVIJEET DAS ...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie...
ROBERT GALBRAITH He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this worl...
AVIJEET DAS Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in you...
SHERRILYN KENYON I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
AVIJEET DAS Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each t...
ROMAN PAYNE I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyli...
KILROY J. OLDSTER When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations...
M.E. VAUGHAN I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
PAUL HAGGIS Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampere...
RED HAIRCROW Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine ...
SUSAN J. MCINTIRE Writers are cut open on the page.
A.D. POSEY Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impres...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and re...
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WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES