The Writing Life Quotes

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough, I knewI was in love.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re my friend? Don’t pick up that pen!

Writers are born, not created.

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

Be Visionary ...

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.

Imagination, curiosity, passion, creativity these are the words that move me!

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

For the curious, I write

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Writers are the wind that sail words across the page.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.