The Writing Life Quotes
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...
He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.
Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.
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?".
I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.
As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.
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.
Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencilthe soft hush of itmoving finallyone dayinto letters.
Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
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.
You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch
The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you’re a writer. That’s still considered cool.
I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
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.
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.
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
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.
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.
Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.
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.
Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in your journal... and then continue with your writing.
