For Writers Quotes
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord.
Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.
I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"For once Auto Correct got it right.
I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.
You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.
It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!
Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.
Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.
Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life.
The closest to my heart is not just one book - it’s the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, “Gods’ Food, ” is already available in English.
A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.
Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!
Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
