Top Writing Life Quotes

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.

I'd give you my heart, but you'd just give it back, so I'll give you my words instead.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.

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

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in w...

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

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

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.