Top Writing Life Quotes

You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.

I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to wr...

Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

You are what you write.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're bein...

Never stop learning and never give up!

Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?