Top Writing Life Quotes

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; gi...

Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

Be Visionary ...

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

I still love the sound of breaking,the tearing of the page

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you...

I have spent a good many years sincetoo many, I thinkbeing ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line...

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part...

As a naturally shy person, I loved the anonymity of writing before my career took off. I loved how my stories didn't care about my weight. When I started publishing that writing, I loved that, to my r...

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Writing is the act of discovery.