Writers On Writing Quotes
Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.
You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.
You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.
Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.
Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.
Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.
