Quotes about writers-world

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

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

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

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 we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

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

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

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.

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

I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

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

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

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

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.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike,” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t do math.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.

Me to characters: talk to me people.

Good editors are priceless.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

Show me the contract.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

A cliffhanger is when ...

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Writer. Another word for poor.

Write on!

The power of the delete key.

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

The pimple is perfect.

I’ll pray for good semen. And I’ll get all of my friends to pray for good semen.

You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

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

What they failed to understand was that a creative person can never restrict himself/herself within a particular time-frame. I was no longer a school-going boy. The writer in me revolted – I started to voice my likes and dislikes.

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

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!

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much wors