Top 68 Authors On Writing Quotes
#1. I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.
Julia Quinn
#2. As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
John Steinbeck
#4. When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
Marti Melville
#5. Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
Eveli Acosta
#6. The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
Daniel Ionson
#7. I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#8. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
Martha Sweeney
#9. Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
Walter Savage Landor
#10. All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
Kate Mosse
#11. Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
Ogwo David Emenike
#12. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
Dan Brown
#13. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
Stefanos Livos
#15. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
Carrie Vaughn
#16. I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
Anne Lamott
#18. The closest to my heart is not just one book - it's the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, "Gods' Food," is already available in English.
Sahara Sanders
#19. If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
Sahara Sanders
#20. Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days.
Julie Wright
#21. There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments - moments of sustained creation - when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
E.B. White
#22. A writer writes
regardless ...
even though ...
notwithstanding ...
despite ...
at any rate ...
anyhow ...
nevertheless ...
in the face of ...
undeterred by ...
heedless of ...
and because.
The true writer simply continues to write.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.
Bruno Schulz
#24. Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
Stephen King
#25. (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man's power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.
Anthony Trollope
#26. Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.
Krystal Sutherland
#27. The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
Kellie Elmore
#28. A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.
Aditi Dufare
#29. I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.
Libba Bray
#30. Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can't say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote
Sahara Sanders
#32. Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#33. People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.
Sara Levine
#34. Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.
Ben Oliveira
#35. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
Mary O'Hara
#36. Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
Sahara Sanders
#37. The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.
Sahara Sanders
#38. It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
Dani Shapiro
#39. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
Ashly Lorenzana
#41. You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
Mary Papas
#42. The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.
Sahara Sanders
#43. An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
Geraldine Solon
#44. I think I'm probably going to be one of those unnoticed Authors that get discovered well after I have passed on. I better drill into my daughter now on how I want my books to be abstracted into Television or Film before it's too late lol
Ellie Williams
#45. Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.
Beem Weeks
#46. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. Salinger
#47. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#49. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.
Ben H. Winters
#50. Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.
Robin Sacredfire
#51. Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#53. Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.
Eveli Acosta
#54. "It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
Mariam Kobras
#55. Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
Cole Porter
#56. I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
Jonathan Culver
#57. Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.
Elizabeth Aston
#59. In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
Agatha Christie
#60. I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
Shannon A. Thompson
#61. We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
Teresa Mummert
#62. The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.
Samuel Johnson
#63. Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
Shana Chartier
#64. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.
R.M. Engelhardt
#65. To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
David Gerrold
#66. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#67. All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing
Carl Henegan
#68. The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make doing what I do.
Nelson DeMille
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