Writing Writing Life Quotes
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
Writing is the act of discovery.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.
When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.
Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.
Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.
But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.
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.
If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
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.
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.
Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.