Writer Quotes

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you must write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.