Be A Writer Quotes
I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.
My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.
I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.
On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?
You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.
There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!
I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.
The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)
I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.
...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...
Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.
...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".
To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.
Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.
...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.
...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don't take decisions.
