1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

Our prayers lie to deep for tears. Our dreams exceed human capacity. We live by necessity. We are more than poetic shadows, indiscrete reflections on the wall of a cave. We possess inner truth.

I am no longer content to live in the prison of the self and have begun reading and writing in order to experience a larger version of reality by seeing the world through the eyes of a thousand people.

I think one of the best gifts you could offer me, as a writer, is to engage with my words, to tell me how they felt to you. To let me, for a moment, see my words through your eyes. And it feels like you read my words so carefully, that you were gentle with them, nurturing. I feel loved and seen by the way you responded. Thank you for caring for the words that rise from my soul.

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

I write to believe in goodness.

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.