2,612 Quotes About Writers

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Writing is an admixture of exposition, introspection, observation, deliberation, rumination, reflection, clarification, meditation, and expression. Perhaps no other activity offers a thoughtful person with as precise a means to inspect and marshal together their fragmented thoughts than writing.

I have a romanticised idea about dedicating myself to my work, to live and die for it and let nothing else interrupt. To live and learn all there is to live and learn in order to be a great writer, a great artist: all I came here to be.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.