Wannabe Writers Quotes

#1. There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What

Steven Pressfield

#2. Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

Joe Eszterhas

#3. People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Diana Vreeland

#4. At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of systems.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I have already thought it over,' said Rubashov. 'I reject your proposition. Logically, you may be right. But I have had enough of this kind of logic. I am tired and I don't want to play this game anymore. Be kind enough to have me taken back to my cell.

Arthur Koestler

#6. Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

Joan D. Chittister

#7. A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life.

Caleb Crain

#8. You know I can do it, Kaz, and you know I'm not going to refuse. So why ask?"
Because I've been looking for an excuse to talk to you for two days.
"I want to make sure you know what you'll be dealing with and that you're studying the plans.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. What woke him was a subconscious awareness of atmospheric change. The billowing curtains over his east windows looked like a fat ghostly intruder.

Carolyn Weston

#10. We forget that things can only be things when there is something which is not a thing, the space.

Chris Matakas