Top Writing Life Quotes

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

I should be writing ...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.