Top Writing Life Quotes

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

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.

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

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

Beware of being only a writer.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.

Shigure: G'morning.Tohru: Good morning!Yuki: Um, Shigure, it's . Why don't you get a sleep pattern?Shigure: I became an author so I wouldn't have to.

So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and t...

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

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.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

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...

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashi...

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your should...

I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.