Top Writing Life Quotes

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.

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

Live first, write second.

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

Beware of being only a writer.

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning reveale...

One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention--a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

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

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun.

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

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!

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...

I remember arriving by train in a small Swiss town. I had walked up a steep, cobblestoned street that offered a sweeping view of the village below and a lake, which, in the late afternoon light, was l...

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...

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was...

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the e...