2,612 Quotes About Writers

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.