Top Writing Life Quotes

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

Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though...

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...

There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

Writing is like scrambling up a hill on all fours; you arrive halfway up, and you are committed - you want to reach the summit, yet you must stop, to gather your strength and will. When you have climb...

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless...

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was...

Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not fre...

You can write great books, the great man continued. Or you can have kids. It's up to you.[...]Writing was a practice. The more you wrote, the better a writer you became, and the more books you produce...

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.