2,612 Quotes About Writers

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

Everyone has a story inside them. It's your truth. Write your truth!

Write.Write it right.Write it wrong--but write it!

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

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