Top Writing Life Quotes

You can write great books, the great man continued. Or you can have kids. It's up to you.[...]Writing was a practice. The more you wrote, the better a writer you became, and the more books you produce...

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...

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he...

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

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

Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not...

Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be loved, to be understood !! She was gone by now, And he was los...

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

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

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless...

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!