Top Writing Life Quotes

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?

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

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...

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...

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.

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

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.

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.

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

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...

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

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to fo...

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind...

The depression was not incapacitating. It made it hard to take a lot of my suburban life seriously, but that was inextricably mingled with a growing consciousness of the larger brutalities of the worl...

It is "vibration" that creates our world. Everyone vibrates. We always utter words in our mind. Thus we create sounds continuously. Frequency differs. Tuning your frequency brings the differences. A g...

I'm not a writer, I just express in words!