To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.

I am so happy that I made someone cry today – don’t worry I’m a writer. It’s when they make me cry that it’s a problem.

One reason I don’t suffer Writer’s Block is that I don’t wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author’s supervision swell gradually with the reader’s lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that – not very appetizing – food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.

…but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they’d liked what I’d written and by the by, more about them than I’d ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

I’ve been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it’s no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

TV is a writer’s medium.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The biography of a writer – or even the autobiography – will always have this incompleteness.

I’m a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done...

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the...

If you can write; then you are a writer – Rayvon L Browne

I gave her love she gave me words to write

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I’d look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an ‘old’ young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

After I did ‘Mr. Show,’ I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, ,wow, I’m 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.” PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make it without the true help of a honest individual or someone who believes in your future. Stop hating people for success this will make your bones rotten. DONT burn the only bride you...

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer’s block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what’s going on has really helped.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Anyone who says “Trust me” is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

Makebelieve is a writer’s best friend.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

It’s strange, isn’t it. You stand in the middle of a library and go ‘aaaaagghhhh’ and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at ‘Chicago’ magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to...

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being a director is.

Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an ‘off’ day. Trust me, good things will come of it.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.