What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a facto...
Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.
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.
If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.
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'm not a writer, I just express in words!
What I don't get about "traditional publishing" is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit t...
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?
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to...
Writing is a 24/7 job. You live it, eat it, breathe it... the pay can be pretty lousy, but you do it happily, because you love it!!! That, and from the day you started writing the voices in your head...
To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed.
A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.
Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imag...
Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.
Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.
Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.