Writers - Quotes

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. - Norman Mailer

Writers in this country, particularly novelists, are likely to come to the medium through some back door. Nearly every writer I know was going to be something else, and then found himself writing by a kind of passionate default. - John Barth

Writers kid themselves – about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work – there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes – it's still just work. - Sinclair Lewis

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. - Edmund Burke

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

Writing a killer first line to a novel is an art form in which there are a few masters and a great many apprentices. - Chuck Wendig

Writing can't be a way of life – the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. - Doris Lessing

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. - Don Delilllo

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted. - Gerald Asher

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. - Graham Greene

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. - Ann Patchett

Writing is a profession you can practice while upside down and experiencing total blackout in a cave. You just use the mental recorder instead of pen and paper ... or portable ... and hope you find a use for the experience. - C. J. Cherryh

Writing is always a rough translation from wordlessness into words. - Charles Simic

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big.... This is a trophy brought back from the further realm, the kingdom of perpetual glistening night where we know ourselves absolutely. This one goes on the wall. - Kate Braverman

Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it. - John Green

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not. - Debasish Mridha