Quotes Tagged "writing-life"

Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.

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

Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

My mind is a forest fire.

Why I write is to spark dreams.

Weekends were made for writing.

As a start-up writer, there is need for you to define your area of interest. You should know what inspires you to becoming a writer. Choose what interests you most and make it your pathway to achieving your dream, then work on it. Both fiction and nonfiction writers have everything in common- they are writers, authors, and the both achieve greatness and influence when they write prolifically.

At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time.

Love can exist in many forms, it is on us, which one we explore and live with it our whole lives.

If only you can read me the way I read poetry.

The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It's not the writing that needs prayer - it's you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue is dogging you today, whether it's anxiety about your teenager or resistance to the topic you are trying to write.