Top Writing Life Quotes

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...

Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, wh...

I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted...

I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street that offered a sweeping view of the village below and a lake, which, in the late afternoon light, was l...

Too many irons, not enough fire.

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders.

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most p...

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience...