Quotes about writers-life

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

I hear you in the morning sun.

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.

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

My Solo Adventure #1- Bali: Imagination unlocked, escaping a cage drawn by a relentless life. Soul freed, reaching beyond the hidden dimensions of an uncertain universe. Thirst. Hunger. Rebirth. For forever we are greedy.

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.

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.

I write amongst the stars, and the canvased paper moon. I paint the fields of green, sprinkling morning dew. I teach the birds to sing, a tweet, a tweet, times two. And when my busy day is done, I dream sweet dreams of you.

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

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

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

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

The writer’s life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.

we inhale life and exhale words. that's just what writers' do--

The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.

As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.

Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone!

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.

Bad feminism seems like the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, and so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blog posts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry, I realize that I'm undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

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.

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

You can only write well, what you have experienced.

I love reading.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!

I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel passionately about certain feelings and there is this yearning within me to express these feelings in words. I am not comfortable meeting a lot of people. I like solitude. I like thinking and I dont like talking much.

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.

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 what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!And that the inimitable fragrance of your skin is more sublime than that of all the perfumes of this world!

We had the longest kisses under the Acacia tree.

Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling f

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

Solitude is heaven bliss.

We are inspired to write by divine force.

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

With so many book projects filling mind and heart, it feels similar to pregnancy. Your own books are like your children—you have to give birth to them, raise them, and do your best to make sure they live happily. You know, you just HAVE TO put into writing all of those thoughts, words and ideas appearing and growing in your head. Otherwise, life will make no sense without 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.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.

The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

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.

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

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

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

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

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

I don’t do math.

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!