The Writing Life Quotes
The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax.
As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
Writing, unfortunately, takes last priority for my time but it's the first priority in my heart I wish I had all the time for. Such is reality.
Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I’m thinking 12 tiers.
The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison
You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...
Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!
I'd give you my heart, but you'd just give it back, so I'll give you my words instead.
We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.
To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.
You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist
Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
