Writers On Writing Quotes - Page 11

We weave together the many skeins of our words,Into poems and stories and books,And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

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

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

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

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

You never know what you will write until you write it

Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.