The Writing Life Quotes
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.
..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
Every book I've read appears in my writing.
Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.
A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.
Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.
Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.
Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.
It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.
Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.
By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.
A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.
When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.
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.
Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.
I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.
