Writers Life Quotes

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

~ Avijeet Das

When I was a schoolgirl my safe haven was a place at the uninhabited part of my parents’ house. I used to climb up to the large windowsill that was facing a spreading plum-tree in the garden. Reading books, or penning my own stories, diaries and poems, it was especially fun to rest there during the warmer seasons of the year with an open window, when the tree was all covered with tender, odorous blossom in spring, and with rich purple fruitage in summer.

~ Sahara Sanders

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.

~ Charles Bukowski

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.

~ Richard Wright

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

~ Gina Mcknight

Time heals all wounds, some broken hearts -- and most cases of writer's block.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

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

~ Fennel Hudson

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

~ Fennel Hudson

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

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ R.d. Ronald

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.

~ Christy Hall

I don’t do math.

~ Buffy Andrews

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

~ Buffy Andrews

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

~ Buffy Andrews

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

~ Buffy Andrews

Me to characters: talk to me people.

~ Buffy Andrews

Good editors are priceless.

~ Buffy Andrews

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

~ Buffy Andrews

Show me the contract.

~ Buffy Andrews

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

~ Buffy Andrews

A cliffhanger is when ...

~ Buffy Andrews

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

~ Buffy Andrews

Writer. Another word for poor.

~ Buffy Andrews

The power of the delete key.

~ Buffy Andrews

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.

~ Paul Gallico

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

~ Roman Payne

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

~ Christopher Bram

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the what if? lens.

~ Kevin J. Fitzgerald

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley

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

~ Terry A O'neal

I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful and amusing reading, it feels like my wings stretch up and blood carries the highest happiness circulating in my veins. I think many writers will understand what I mean by that.

~ Sahara Sanders

The worst reviews, by my mind, are those from individuals who enjoy entertaining themselves by writing something bad about books they actually never read, which is as clear as day from what they’re saying. It’s even more puzzling for an author to check some of these “honest” reviewers’ pages and see that they created their profile with one goal in mind; to post you a bad review, as there’s nothing else they wanted to rate.

~ Sahara Sanders

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

~ Buffy Andrews

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!

~ Buffy Andrews

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich

~ Buffy Andrews