Silly Writer Quotes

#1. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

#2. To Change Priority Is A Sign Of A New Discovery

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time ... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

Marjane Satrapi

#4. No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Tibor Kalman

#5. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

Sharon Weil

#6. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Paula Danziger

#7. What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

William, Saroyan

#8. I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.

John D'Agata

#9. I love you,' he whispered, and kissed my brow. 'Thorns and all.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.

Carla H. Krueger

#11. All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far ... it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start of bringing me here.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair

#13. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

#14. Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

Will Rogers

#15. At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Tanith Lee

#16. My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

Dav Pilkey

#17. To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

Arianna Huffington