Quotes and sayings about tag  writers

29 Quotes

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Natsuki Takaya

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Ray Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Ray Bradbury

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Robert Galbraith

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen King

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

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

Vita Sackville-West

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

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