Be A Writer Quotes
Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.
Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.
There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind
You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.
If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.
A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.
Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.
There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.
And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced
A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.
A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.
The mind is a thing capable of destroying itself when deep grief sets in, and when left alone to muse over one’s misery, the most irreparable damage can be done. You need people to heal.
I Grew Up In A Family With No Prejudices. My Father Always Believed There Were Good And Bad In Every Ethnic Background, And Nationality.
Ever Since I Can Remember, I Have Always Been a Huge Advocate for Women and Children.
If You Are Not Getting Any Kind of Negative Feedback, Than You Probably Are Not Working Hard Enough.
I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.
