1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

I should be writing ...

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

Working on it.

A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start