Writer Quotes (page 2)

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• great
• courage
• time

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them. Harry Crews

• complains
• writer's block
• never complain

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. Robert B. Parker

• writing
• job
• cowboy

Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me. David Mamet

• failure
• failures
• blocks

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

• findings
• finds
• writers

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Elizabeth Bowen

• dream
• turning
• dreamed

Writers turn dreams into print. James A. Michener

• giving
• headache
• gives

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! Chinua Achebe

• universe
• star
• light

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth. Arthur Schopenhauer

• waiting
• writing
• end

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released. Natalie Goldberg

• crazy
• supposed
• were

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy S. E. Hinton

• watch
• good
• party

Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. Neil Gaiman

• mistake
• choose
• friend

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. Catherine Drinker Bowen

• challenge
• job
• comforting

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job. Jeanette Winterson

• demonic
• writers
• own

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. Mario Vargas Llosa

• nature
• good
• liars

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars. Daniel Keys Moran