The Writing Life Quotes
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.
The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„
Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.
When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer, ' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.
Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
What God has written for your life. No human being can alter it.
I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.
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I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]
To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality
SUCCESS in WRITING occurs when your DREAMS are BIGGER than your EXCUSES.
Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is rarely lonely.
The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.
Pay attention, and use your imagination.