Top Writing Life Quotes

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.

Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elic...

I should be writing ...

So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...

Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I'd...

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not...

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.

I have spent a good many years sincetoo many, I thinkbeing ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line...

In order to write about life first you must live it.

There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.