Writing Life Quotes
Writing Life Quote of the day
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...
I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.
Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.
Writing is the great invention of the world.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden....
Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.
I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.
Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough, I knewI was in love.
Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.
Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I’m thinking 12 tiers.
My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.
The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.
Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.
My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.
