While the world may not be willing to accept it, the truth is that writing is an extremely creative process. While artists paint with a brush and employ colors, a writer paints with words and employs a creativity of his own. If you have it in you, there is no holding you back from writing for a lifetime. This is what will help make you a writer, in the truest sense of the term. Go right ahead and read on for famous quotations and sayings on writers.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Yeah, writers do hate writing.
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
