Writers-on-writing Quotes

“Working on it.”

— Paul Aertker

“I don’t do math.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Ink, a Drug.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A cliffhanger is when ...”

— Buffy Andrews

“I write for change.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“I loss Muse!”

— Buffy Andrews

“My pen is my voice.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“Writin’ Is Fightin'!”

— Anonymous

“Writer's block is just another name for fear.”

— Jacob Nordby

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”

— Jo Linsdell

“I wear the writer pants in the family.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Writer. Another word for poor.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!”

— Buffy Andrews

“I drift, I wander, and I write.”

— Avijeet Das

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“She cured me of my sadness.”

— Avijeet Das

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

“Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.”

— Avijeet Das

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond”

— J.L. Bond

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”

— Sheila Heti

“You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be…

— Robert J. Randisi

“We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly…

— Avijeet Das

“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…

— Sam Shepard

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

— Tonny K. Brown

“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you…

— Lisa Marbly-Warir

“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they…

— Daniel Kemp

“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite…

— Roman Payne

“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the…

— C. JoyBell C

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters…

— Glen Hirshberg

“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to…

— C. JoyBell C

“People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people…

— C. JoyBell C

“Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep and a million more that wake up as each second passes by... And…

— Sanhita Baruah

“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some…

— Avijeet Das