Do you aspire or dream to be a writer? Or inspired by the authors whose words were timeless masterpiece that touches a part of your soul whenever you read them? Or just curious about the creative process of every writer? Here's what some of the renowned authors has to say about "writing" and advice on how to be one:
1. All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. --Kahlil Gibran
2. I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. --Pearl S. Buck
3. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. --Martin Luther
4. A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. --Richard Bach
5. Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it. --John Green
6. The story must strike a nerve — in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk. --Susan Sontag
7. You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. --Neil Gaiman
8. Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.--David Foster Wallace
9. Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. --A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
10. If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. --Isaac Isimov
11. Write while the heat is in you… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. --Henry David Thoreau
12. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. --Ernest Hemingway
13. Writing is the painting of the voice. --Voltaire
14. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau
15. We write to taste life in the moment and in retrospect. --Anais Nin
16. There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written – it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. --Mark Twain
17. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. --Maya Angelou
18. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. --William Wordsworth
19. Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. --Anton Chekhov
20. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. --Ernest Hemingway
