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

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

Jacob Nordby

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

George R.R. Martin

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

Red Haircrow

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Gustave Flaubert

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

Vita Sackville-West

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

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

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

Lemony Snicket

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