Top 100 Author Writing Quotes
#1. Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#2. Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
James Rollins
#3. Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.
Stephanie Laurens
#4. Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.
Fennel Hudson
#6. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.
Wesley D. Gray
#7. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#8. It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power.
S.A. Tawks
#9. Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one.
Tarang Sinha
#10. A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
Jorge Luis Borges
#11. The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.
Amit Kalantri
#12. Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.
Ren Garcia
#13. Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know.
S.A. Tawks
#14. The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.
Katja Michael
#15. Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.
S.A. Tawks
#16. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?
S.A. Tawks
#17. If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.
Peter James West
#18. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Carla H. Krueger
#19. Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like another piece of me in a different world.
B.A. Gabrielle
#21. If you hear voices, you're a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you're an author.
Dani Harper
#22. When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.
B.A. Gabrielle
#23. Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
Anton Chekhov
#24. No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.
S.A. Tawks
#25. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
Max Hawthorne
#26. You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
Richard Wisniewski
#27. Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.
S.A. Tawks
#29. Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.
Wayne Hoss
#30. 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
Tess Gerritsen
#31. An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
Uri Shulevitz
#33. Writing a story no one else dares to say, sits outside my comfort zone, is one of the biggest challenges I'm facing as an author.
Veronica Purcell
#34. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
Shandy L. Kurth
#35. The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
C.S. Lewis
#36. I thought of To Kill a Mockingbird. I had finished reading it one night in a bunker, my knees bent and hunched together while mortars hit the ground, the glow of a cigarette and the moon as my only light. Standing there now, chain-smoking, I felt like I finally understood the ending.
Michael Anthony
#37. Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.
Ngaio Marsh
#38. If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.
Ruth Glick
#39. I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.
S.A. Tawks
#41. You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.
S.A. Tawks
#42. Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#43. An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.
Randall Jarrell
#45. I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!
Sarah Weeks
#46. There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
Anne Lamott
#47. Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.
Khaled Talib
#49. When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.
Diana Wynne Jones
#50. Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
S.A. Tawks
#51. I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
Jeff Kinney
#52. Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
Mark Twain
#53. Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.
Catherine Asaro
#54. He could've penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn't have been the wiser.
Kelly Moran
#55. I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it's actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.
Paul Benedetti
#56. Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings.
Linda Strong
Vicki M. Taylor
#58. It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?
D.A. Botta
#60. Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
Agatha Christie
#62. I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel - to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. I've long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn't had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper.
Logan Kain
#64. I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#66. Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly.
Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
#67. Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.
V.M. Sawh
#68. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.
S.A. Tawks
#69. Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart
Munia Khan
#70. One hates an author that's all author.
Lord Byron
#71. Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.
S.A. Tawks
#72. [N]o such thing as objective writing, ... every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more about the author and his time than it does about the ostensible subject.
Sue Hubbell
#73. A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.
Ryan Lilly
#74. I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
Stephen Chbosky
#75. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
#76. The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.
S.A. Tawks
#77. Yes I am aware of the rules.
Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.
Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.
That gives my soul its melodies.
Malebo Sephodi
#78. Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
David Beaty
#79. Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie.
Bent Larsen
#80. The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time a
different text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#81. We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.
S.A. Tawks
#82. Ending a series is a difficult one ... where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away from the characters and let the readers decide their fate from there? When they can stand on their own is my only answer for that.
Shandy L. Kurth
#83. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
Simi Sunny
#84. Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.
Testy McTesterson
#85. Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#86. Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.
B.A. Gabrielle
#87. It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.
Robertson Davies
#88. The first duty of an Author is
I conceive
a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.
Charlotte Bronte
Juliet Barker
#89. Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.
David John Griffin
#90. As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.
S.A. Tawks
#91. An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
Gaston Leroux
#92. To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
William Hazlitt
#94. Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Patricia Fuller
#95. Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.
Joanne Van Leerdam
#96. Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.
Nadege Richards
#98. One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."
Mike Mankoff
Mike Mankoff
#99. When you don't have the pressure of pleasing someone else and do something because you love doing it, that's when the best works are born.
Vishwas Mudagal
