Quotes About Writers

Witty and funny quotes about being a writer, an author, or poet.

• I can and do proudly over-romanticize. After all, I am a poet.
• Don't write everything down. Keep some thoughts for yourself.
• Writers block is when the voices in your head stop talking to you.
• The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you don't write.
• Better write for yourself and have no public than write for the public and have no self.
• Talking about writing won't get a book written, you've got to write.
• If you want to write emotionally, first be unemotional.
• Growing up is over-rated. Just be an author.
• A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
• Writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on our memories.
• The scariest moment is just before you start writing.
• A good writer evokes sensations in the reader.
• To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
• To survive I must tell stories.
• If you want to be a writer you must read a lot and write a lot.
• The secret to be coming a writer is to write and keep on writing.
• Three words for writers: Make me care.
• If the noun is good and the verb is strong you almost never need an adjective.
• The quality of a writers life is written in his words.
• There is no limit to the number of stories.
• Writers often write about their imaginary friends.
• Goals with writing are dreams with deadlines.
• A one-page breakthrough can start an avalanche.
• A writer is before anything else, a person who is passionate about language.
• A writer is a dreamer by nature.
• A good writer is one who has the ability to engage you.
• Ask me how I feel about writing and I'll ask you how you feel about breathing.
• The writers worst enemy is self-doubt.
• When I want to read a novel, I write one.
• If a book is well written I always find it too short.
• Writing is not hard. You just sit at the computer and put one word after the other until it's done.
• You have to write a book that wants to be written.
• If the book you're writing is too difficult for grown-ups then maybe write it for children.
• Writers write to influence their readers.
• If you can quite, quit. If you can't you're a writer.
• Just write. If it's good you'll find out. If it's not - throw it out and start again.
• The greatest authors were great readers, and the ones who understood the books they read.
• Treat all your secondary characters like they think the book is about them.
• One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right in life that they got wrong before.
• Writers block is only a failure of the ego.
• Please do not annoy the writer he could put you in a story and destroy you!
• Even easy reading is damn hard writing.
• The best stories don't come from good v's bad but from good v's good.
• You lay the words out and they dig a path for you to follow.
• Writing is the most difficult and most rewarding job I ever had.
• The greatest pleasure of writing is re-reading and feeling satisfied.
• Writing is both talent and acquired skill.

• I love how writing lets me pretend there was a happy ending.
• Don't believe everything you read.
• When I'm on a roll, I will write all night.
• I've had disastrous relationships which left me with the most moving poems.
• I write all of the things I'm too afraid to say out loud, and then I write some more.
• I love how I can create my own fantasy world and share it with thousands! That's why I write.
• I rush off to get some sleep when I see the sun's coming up. Because the hours regularly get lost while I'm writing.
• Many emotions can be felt from a single sentence.
• It feels right when I write.
• Keep calm and write it down.
• Keep calm and save your work as you go.
• Keep calm, you can edit it later.
• Keep calm, your readers will love it.
• Keep calm, you'll find another word that rhymes.
• Keep calm, your publisher will approve it.
• Keep calm and use the spell checker.
• I write to delight!

• Authors make great pen-pals.
• You risk a fierce reply if you make a complaint to a writer in writing.
• Because I've already written it all down, I don't feel the need to say much about my feelings.
• Every little thing I write tells you a little thing about me.
• If I was a novelist I'd write a book showing you what would have happened if you made a different choice.
• One paragraph can tell a whole life story when necessary.
• All though a writer sits silently there's a party of thoughts within.
• A profit from the arrangement of words on a page. How simple for a poet.
• I am paid for sharing my imagination in text.
• Writing. Because how else can you profit from sharing emotions?
• You are right to Write, alright!
• No matter how good a writer you are you always need to rely on the spell checker.
• Every writer has some of their best work rejected.
• There is nothing quite as romantic as poem that spills with love.
• Take away my pen and I still have stories to tell.

• I love the way other writers inspire me.
• If it doesn't have impact - write it differently.
• A good writer can make you LOL when you are sitting alone, or make you start crying your eyes out!
• A writer can send a smile to your in box.
• A writer takes you on an imaginary journey before they tell you what the outcome is.
• A poem from an old flame is often all that's needed to re-ignite the fire.
• Never under-estimate the power of putting it in writing.
• Writing is designing with words.
• Writers are better at putting emotions on paper than they are speaking the words.
• Writing resolves heart-ache.
• Writing resolves feelings.
• Even a good writer can spend all day penning something that ultimately gets thrown in the trash.
• Writing is a wonderful way to explore your feelings.
• If it can't be said out loud, write it down.
• A writer can profit from heart-ache and bad experiences.
• There is no friend as loyal as a good book.
• A poet puts the music in the words when there is no music playing.
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
• A writer can make words sparkle, dance or sting.
• Let me live, love and say it well in good paragraphs!
• Poetry is language at it's most powerful.
• If my writing doesn't impress you, nothing will!
• If I waited until I felt like writing I'd never write at all.
• Don't be a 'Writer' be writing.
• Good fiction's job is to comfort and disturb the comfortable.
• No-one could ever tell your story better than you - So tell it yourself.