2,612 Quotes About Writers

A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

Hendaklah tukang-tukang cerita waspada terhadap hal-hal bohong dan hikayat-hikayat yang menyajikan perbuatan salah, atau yang tujuan baiknya tidak dapat difahamkan oleh umum. Atau, cerita itu merupakan satu pertarungan antara yang baik dengan buruk, lalu yang buruk mendapat pembelaan yang berlebihan sebelum dikalahkan oleh yang baik. Tanpa disedari, hal ini memberanikan orang berbuat dosa (Ihya' Ulumuddin).

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.