Writers On Writing Books Writing Quotes

#1. The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

Carla H. Krueger

#2. The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

Kellie Elmore

#3. I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#4. The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

John Steinbeck

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

Savi Sharma

#8. This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

Chrys Fey

#9. I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people
men and women alike
could go on to happier, more productive lives.

Richard Ford

#10. Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#11. Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#12. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Carla H. Krueger

#13. We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff

#15. Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It's amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

Pierce Brown

#16. Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#17. 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

#18. No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Karl Popper

#19. Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

Jo Linsdell

#20. 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

#21. Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Jo Linsdell

#22. You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went "Poor sod. Here's a five star review so you don't hang yourself in the garage.

Ash Gray

#23. I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

Avijeet Das

#24. Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Peter Selgin

#25. We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

Avijeet Das

#26. Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Carla H. Krueger

#27. When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Avijeet Das

#28. You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write.

M. Kirin

#29. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

Bree Verity

#30. If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

Sahara Sanders

#31. Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Jamie L. Harding

#32. 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

#33. Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Robert Galbraith

#34. Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Carla H. Krueger

#35. Before there were books, we read each other.

Lisa Cron

#36. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#37. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

Sue Grafton

#38. As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Avijeet Das

#39. Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don't let stress steal your joy.

Sarra Cannon

#40. ...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#41. I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleasure to those who buy our books.

M.V. Carey

#42. Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#43. There is always, always, always something to write about.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#44. When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#45. 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

#46. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.

Beth Revis

#47. Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

#48. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

#49. I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Lynn Abbey

#50. I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing
and reading
is a solitary business. And it's good to know I'm not alone.

Shannon Celebi

#51. The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#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. In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.

Pat Conroy

#54. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Carla H. Krueger

#55. I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.

Avijeet Das

#56. Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!

Avijeet Das

#57. Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.

C.C. Wyatt

#58. He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.

Tobias Wolff

#59. Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Deana J. Driver

#60. If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

Don Roff