Writers Life Quotes - Page 4

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

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

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life.

Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there!

It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solution. Condition your rawhide for growth. (Either way).

I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

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

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!

You cannot write if you are not on fire

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

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.

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

A pen name is a nickname.

In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

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

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

You never know what you will write until you write it