Top 1200 Beginning Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

Writers have always been very underrated.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we shall have a lack of home doctors, family doctors. I'm not sure of that, but we have a problem of formation. Every year there [are] about 1,000 students beginning medical studies, and at the end of the formation there are only 600 young people getting the diploma. It means that about 40 percent of the students fail during the studies, although there is a selection at the beginning. Forty percent is too much as failure, so probably there is a problem in the formation, education.

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

People don't want to pay for pitches. They want to see it. If you hear one more time, "Well, that's execution-dependent." Everything's execution-dependent! If there's something that's going to be a little bit more interesting than The Untitled Slinky Movie, then I think that writers that want to do interesting work and at the same time commercial work need to put it down on paper. So agents and producers that writers are working with are encouraging them to get it on paper because the studios like to see what they're buying rather than just imagine what it could be.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

I want to be one of those serious, moody writers.

Writers talk too much.

I think writers are born, not made.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

There are many talented writers in Mollywood.

Good writers touch life often.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. Furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in Europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. Younger Eastern European writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in Europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.