Top Writing Life Quotes

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything

May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) No...

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societ...

Writers are born, not created.

I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

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

You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'""Joining the words 'Lose Weight, E...

No one ever does the last thing on their list.

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I h...

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.

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.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.