The Writing Life Quotes

The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.

I only wish to write.

Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.

How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.

Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.

Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.

The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.

The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.

Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.

It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head.

To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in.

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.

No one ever does the last thing on their list.

Everything is research.

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Only a writer holds conversations between people that don't exist. We don't talk to ourselves. We talk to people we created from nothing.#FromTheInternet #AuthorUnknown

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale.

All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!

The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer.

Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

Too many stories. Not enough Tim.

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

Writing helps maintain my sanity or else I would lose my mind.

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.

Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.

But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you’re a writer. That’s still considered cool.

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch

Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.