132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

Readers and writers around the world have a cultural commitment with our time.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time.

Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.

Stop calling yourself an authoress. You sound like an idiotess.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

We writers write stories on the people we come across in life. We meet many people and each person leaves behind a part of himself or herself with us. And then one day the writer's life becomes a story!

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...