Writers Life Quotes

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every book has its ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Creative people need strong encouragement.

~ Fennel Hudson

I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a writer

~ Charisse Spiers

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

~ Vincent Louis Carrella

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

~ Fennel Hudson

Let your light shine from the inside out.

~ Juliet M Sampson

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

~ Fennel Hudson

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

~ Salman Rushdie

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

~ Fennel Hudson

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

~ Fennel Hudson

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

~ Fennel Hudson

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

~ Fennel Hudson

There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

~ Rob Bignell

Let you light shine from the inside out.

~ Juliet M. Sampson

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.

~ Christy Hall

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!

~ Christy Hall

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

~ Adam Steven Page

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

~ Fennel Hudson

Spread sunshine and inspiration.

~ Juliet M. Sampson

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.

~ Diogo Mainardi

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.

~ Nikki Rowe

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

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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.

~ Sahara Sanders

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

~ Nico J. Genes

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

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

~ Avijeet Das

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; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers.

~ Eskay Teel

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.

~ Alvi Syahrin

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

~ Rainbow Rowell

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

~ R.d. Ronald

I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.

~ Tonny K. Brown

But what is life without a passion?

~ Avijeet Das

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

~ Lisa Marbly-Warir