Writers On Quotes

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

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

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

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 only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility.

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.

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.

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

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.

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

But what is life without a passion?

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.