22,331 Quotes About Writing

Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.” ― Gustave Flaubert

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

أما سمعت بالذي طبخ القاموس وأكله ليصبح كاتباً ؟لقد مات المسكين بعسر الهضم وما استطاع أن يكتب حتى وصيته