Writers Life Quotes

I write the words God put on my mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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?

~ Crystal Woods

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

~ Ashley Earley

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.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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.

~ Kathleen Baldwin

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.

~ Anne Lamott

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

~ Walt Disney Company

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

~ Manjula Martin

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.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

~ Roman Payne

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

~ William Zinsser

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 for less than their best.

~ William Zinsser

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

~ Neel Burton

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

~ Beem Weeks

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

~ Kevin Cowdall

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

~ Rossana Condoleo

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

~ Roman Payne

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.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

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.

~ R.d. Ronald

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

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

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.

~ Day Parker

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

~ Siri Hustvedt

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

~ Christy Hall

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.

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

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.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

~ Buffy Andrews

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

~ Buffy Andrews

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

~ Buffy Andrews

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

~ Eveli Acosta

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

~ Mylo Carbia

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

~ Slash Coleman

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

~ Jt Sanz

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana