1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

You are diagnosed with the disease of penmanship. Your hands itch to write.You scribble on walls, and paper.Every sorrow ends on the Page.Born to write, born to fight.It is the path of a writer.It is a path you were chosen to take.

Sister-writer, treat your bedside pen and paper like royalty.

Our lives are spent plopped on the gluteal upholstery for eight hours a day with only imaginary friends for company, spinning lies, marinating in envy, and wondering when the Pulitzer committee is going to twig to our brilliance.

I remember when it was all done in first draft telling Gene Wolfe, who is the wisest writer I know and has written more excellent novels than any man I've met, that I thought I had now learned how to write a novel. Gene looked at me, and smiled kindly. "You never learn how to write a novel," he told me. "You only learn to write the novel you're on.

Even though it may be fiction, I never want to lie about the world I know: the Black one. I wish to write truth, even in a fictionalized world derived from my imagination. It should tell an accurate narrative of who we are and who we have the potential to be.

Stories End, Love Doesn't.

Story-telling is a lot like making love. There are rules, yet there are no rules. You must keep your lover engaged; keep pressing the right buttons. Make the reader look forward to your next move with bated breath. Build up the tension and let it explode in the climax. (Anurag Shourie)

Writing about shame can bring joy to people. If you are brave enough to do it!

To plan a book — or an escape — the first thing to know is what to exclude.