The Writing Life Quotes
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.
Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.
What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.
Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.
Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.
Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.
Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.
The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.
Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.
Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.
A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.
Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.
