Quotes About Writing

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

If you don't love your characters who else will?

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

He who controls the present, controls the pen that records the past and thus is the owner of the brush that paints the future.

There is no poet, black or otherwise, writing with as much wicked candor and passion." Terrance Hayes on Wanda Coleman

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink.

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do.

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.

Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.

A notepad by the bedside accounts for half the earnings of my livelihood. If it weren't for bedtime, half my novels would still be stuck at dock.

The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

My life's entwined by curly quote marks Clever phrases and profound remarks....

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams.

Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines.

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.

Ink surrounds me all the time On my bed sheets, recorded in rhyme Quills 'ever scribbling in my head Sometimes damnit I forget what they said. Ink has settled into my fingerprints But to keep the words I fear to rinse...