Quotes and sayings about tag  writers

29 Quotes

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Cornelia Funke

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Red Haircrow

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

George R.R. Martin

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Ishmael Reed

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Jacob Nordby

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Junot Díaz

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Lemony Snicket

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Lloyd Alexander

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

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