Books Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they…

— Robert Black

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on your lap.”

— Melody Lee

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

— John Rhys-Davies

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

— Anonymous

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

— Moran Atias

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

— Martin Amis

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks