2,612 Quotes About Writers

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

To write is not just seeing the world through a kaleidoscope of possibilities, but a means to shift the tides of color that exist within it.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

Explore your unique talent.

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.