2,612 Quotes About Writers

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

Not every day is a writing day! Sometimes all you need is to grab a comfortable corner, have a cup of coffee, read some good writers, and unravel their words with your stories

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

A book already dies in your hand when you’ve decided what to read next. A page must make us take a wrong turn, a book a new path, an author a new friend, a chapter a shortage of breath, and a lesson a different life.

A writer = a worried person picking up a pen, in the face of death, writing to unlimited strangers to say, “Look!

To see love and sacrifice, stand before a bookshelf. To feel love and sacrifice, pick a book and open it. To love and sacrifice, add one.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.