Inspiring Writers Quotes

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. ~ Alejandro Zambra

I've lived inside every ward of Freedom Incorporated and found I don't like being lied to. Put me in prison; do not put me on the street then call that freedom. Do not force me to into believing block-cut neon red, white, and blue letters super-glued to the tall, outside company wall blinking Freedom Incorporated," chapter seven 'The Problem' from writer Cosmo Starlight's sixth edition novel "Freedom Incorporated. ~ Cosmo Starlight

Write the kind of book you'd like to read. If it's written well, someone else will like it to. ~ Thalia Lake

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ~ Robin Craig Clark

All is as we are. ~ A.D. Posey

He called you beautiful, for a black girl and you kissed him. It would not be the last time someone would pay you a provisional compliment, nor the last time you accept it. Back then, you had not yet realized, that those who view your beauty conditionally, undoubtedly felt the same towards your humanity. ~ Rafeif Ismail

The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life ~ Bryant McGill

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. ~ Carroll Bryant

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say ~ Michael Winner

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

The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great rock heart of the earth in its roll. It is merely the slow cessation of the will's spirits and the intellect's chatter: it is waiting like a hollow bell with a stilled tongue. Fuge, tace, quiesce. The waiting itself is the thing. ~ Annie Dillard

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Every agent has a Sig Weiss - as a rosy dream. You sit there day after day paddling through oceans of slush, hoping one day to run across a manuscript that means something - sincerity, integrity, high word rates - things like that. You try to understand what editors want in spite of what they say they want, and then you try to tell it to writers who never listen unless they're talking. You lend them money and psychoanalyze them and agree with them when they lie to themselves. When they write stories that don't make it, it's your fault. When they write stories that do make it, they did it by themselves. And when they hit the big time, they get themselves another agent. In the meantime, nobody likes you. ~ Theodore Sturgeon

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language. ~ Alice McDermott

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary. ~ Robert Reich

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it's black and white. When there's a song there's a song, when there's not there's not. ~ Brian Wilson

If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers. ~ Paul Westerberg

There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense. ~ Mark Billingham

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. ~ Anne Lamott

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ~ Robert Benchley

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. ~ Antonia Fraser

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything. ~ Martha Grimes

Peace is patient. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Film brings people together. ~ A.D. Posey

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere ~ Joan Didion

Every clear night is an opportunity to experience something amazing. I have seen comets stretch across the sky, viewed sunlight glinting off the dust that floats between the planets, and witnessed a Milky Way so bright that the glow of its billion stars cast a shadow at my feet. But in all my life I have never seen anything as awe inspiring, as awesome - in the original definition of the word - as a total eclipse of the Sun. ~ Tyler Nordgren

Panic is poison. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There was no doubt in the minds of nineteenth-century cooks and cookbook writers that there was something about pie - a difficult to grasp something that made it universally esteemed in a way that cake or stew or soup was not. ~ Janet Clarkson

Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. 24/Seven ~ Big Time Rush

Creativity takes courage. It takes courage to bare your soul for the world. It's like taking off your armor, although you know people have pointy sticks that they love to jab into soft flesh. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers. ~ Ted Naifeh

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

She's the reason people feels loved and believed in the goodness in people .She's the reason thousand smiles ... ~ Imran Shaikh

Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped. ~ Holly Bourne

The bond of brotherhood is we are sisters and brothers in love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived. ~ Tanith Lee

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.
It's about the writer you're becoming while creating. ~ T.N. Suarez

I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life. ~ Kenneth J. Ester

The happiness of writers is the thought that can be entirely emotion and the emotion that can be entirely thought. Such a pulsing thought, such a ~ Thomas Mann

You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect. ~ Gautama Buddha

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. ~ Annie Dillard

I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. ~ Sloane Crosley