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

~ Christy Hall

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Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

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You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

~ Markus Zusak

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I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

~ Christy Hall

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Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

~ Christy Hall

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I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

~ Christy Hall

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When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

~ Christy Hall

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Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

~ Christy Hall

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Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

~ Robert Black

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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

~ Michel Foucault

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Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

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Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

~ Gillian Flynn

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A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?''You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.''Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

~ Louise Fitzhugh

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Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

~ Christy Hall

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A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

~ Mort W. Lumsden

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Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

~ Christy Hall

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Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

~ J.a. Pak

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But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation— and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity— the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

~ Joseph Conrad

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A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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There are more writers who read than readers who write.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

~ Mark Haddon

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Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

~ Graeme Roberts

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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

~ Umberto Eco

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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improve

~ John Steinbeck

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I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

~ Kendall Hailey

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Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

~ Flannery O'connor

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Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party. It’s also full of demons, like a piñata at a birthday party in a mental hospital. The truth is, it’s demons that keep a tortured writer’s spirit alive, not Tootsie Rolls. Sure they’ll give you a tiny burst of energy, but they won’t do squat for your writing. So treat your demons with the respect they deserve, and with enough prescriptions to keep you wearing pants.

~ Colin Nissan

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Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.

~ Helen Bevington

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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

~ Charles Bukowski

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I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.

~ George R.r. Martin

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I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

~ Rayne Hall

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

~ Carroll Bryant

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Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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