For Writers Quotes
IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWNBACK
WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST....DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY!SPEAK UP!
THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF
It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.
The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.
Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.
Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.
What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?
Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?
A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.
As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.
A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don’t read will for ever stay in the same place.
Write for a cause, NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express, NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED
Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.
Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating
A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.
Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.
Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -
Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.
I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.
That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.
Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.
Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere...
Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried!
Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.
