1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

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

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.