Writers World Quotes

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Charles Bukowski
“Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.”
Charles Bukowski

Monica Mastrantonio Martins
“She never claimed to be a writer, she simply described herself as a typist of stories waiting to come alive.”
Margareth Stewart, The war

Alberto Laiseca
“Los mejores escritores tienen una única obra, que las escriben en veinticinco libros o lo que vos quieras, pero, es una sola obra.”
Alberto Laiseca

Stewart Stafford
“Being a prophet in the wilderness speaking truth to power typically leads to poverty and punishment. It is far easier to follow the lucrative trade winds of popular opinion but withheld honesty results in forgotten words.”
Stewart Stafford

Deepak Ranjan
“What they failed to understand was that a creative person can never restrict himself/herself within a particular time-frame. I was no longer a school-going boy. The writer in me revolted – I started to voice my likes and dislikes.”
Deepak Ranjan, Nights of the Velvet: A Conditional Dream

Joanna Rakoff
“Typing was, as the placement agency lady had assured me, like riding a bike: my fingers remembered their places on the keyboard and flew across it as if by their own will.”
Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year

T.N. Suarez
“Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.”
T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree

J.R.R. Tolkien
“If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a of it afterwards'.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

Carmen DeSousa
“‪If the overuse of adjectives is frowned upon in writing, why are expletives—the ones commonly used as adjectives—embraced?”
Carmen DeSousa

Avijeet Das
“What is the meaning of life?" She asked me.
"Life has no meaning!" I said.
"Then why do we live?" She asked me.
"To create the meaning!" I said.”
Avijeet Das

“U nekim trenucima, cak i pisac pozeli da bude necija poezija.”
Tamara Stamenkovic

Samuel Colbran
“I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!”
Samuel Colbran, Lake Merrin

“In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”
Terry a O'Neal

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical surroundings, a self-directed exploration of their internal and external environment.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Stewart Stafford
“Writers must keep spilling their guts to the public until they go from saying 'Eew, that's gross' to 'Wow, look at that! Show us more!!' to 'Put it away, we've seen it before.”
Stewart Stafford

Sahndra Fon Dufe
“You are diagnosed with the disease of penmanship.
Your hands itch to write.
You scribble on walls, and paper.
Every sorrow ends on the Page.
Born to write, born to fight.
It is the path of a writer.
It is a path you were chosen to take.”
Sahndra Fon Dufe

Sahndra Fon Dufe
“You don't need an apology from them.
You need a pen and paper.
Use it to fuel the work.
Get published. Get paid. Period.”
Sahndra Fon Dufe