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Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment and there is perfection, you know, as if I exist fully in that nanosecond of emotion.

Trinity Jones

How do I get inspired? Life.

Alex G. Zarate

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

Lisa Bedrick

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

Tracie Molton

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Christos Tsiolkas

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Christos Tsiolkas

I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

Christos Tsiolkas

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

Christos Tsiolkas

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Rob Bignell

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Rob Bignell

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Rob Bignell

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

Rob Bignell

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

Lenore Kandel

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

Shannon L. Alder

His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

Donal Logue

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Rob Bignell

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Rob Bignell

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

Rob Bignell

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

Lori Lesko

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

Ralph Keyes

It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

Tom McCarthy

People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you’re just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.

Zack Love

I would be happy to take credit for all of the wonderful experiences I describe in my novels, but my life isn’t quite that rich. Unfortunately we authors are sometimes forced to use other people’s lives, too.”“Sounds rather beastly,” the journalist laughed. “Or maybe writers are like vultures. Some people feel we journalists are.” He mimicked a bird of prey and grinned.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Even the best cook can’t make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren’t so terribly many ingredients in anyone’s life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come up with at most two good novels. Many who think very highly of themselves can’t manage more than a couple of anecdotes.

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are going to live forever through your work, in your books, in the hearts of your readers, in your characters.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

Tom McCarthy

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Linda Durbin

Literature is language charged with meaning

Ezra Pound

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Ryan Lilly

I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever been in my life. … It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It’s like, ‘Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It’s super important for my law!

Joss Whedon

Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren't necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children's book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers are very rarely scary looking, although they are frequently good cooks.

Kelly Link

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Margaret Atwood

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Uma Nnenna

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

Nanette L. Avery

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

Sanober Khan

may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

Sanober Khan

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Marty Rubin

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Shannon L. Alder

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

Lori Lesko

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

Kelli Russell Agodon

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Authors are sick people.

Sarah M. Eden

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.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.

Lisa Pliscou

Bookish folk aren’t what they used to be. Introverted, reserved, studious. There was a time when bookish folk would steer clear of trendy bars, dinner occasions and gatherings. Any social or public encounters would be avoided at all costs because these activities were very un-bookish. Bookish people preferred to stay in, or to sit alone in a quiet pub, reading a good book, or getting some writing done. Writers, in fact, perhaps epitomised these bookish traits most strongly. At least, they used to.These days, bookish people, such as writers, are commonly found on stage, headlining festivals, or being interviewed on TV. Author events and performances have proliferated, becoming established parts of a writer’s role. It’s not that authors have suddenly become more extroverted – it’s more a case that their job description has changed. Of course, not all writers are bookish. Not in the traditional sense of the word anyway. Some are well suited for public life, particularly those from certain academic backgrounds where public speaking is encouraged and confidence in social situations is shaped and formed. These writers may even be termed ‘gregarious’, and are thus happy being offered up for speaking engagements, stage discussions and signings. Good for them. But the others – the timid, shy and mousy authors – they’re being thrust into the limelight too. That’s my lot. The social wipeouts. Unprepared and ill-equipped to face our reader audience. What’s most concerning is that no one is offering us any guidance or tips. We’re expected to hit the ground running, confident and ready, loaded with banter, quips and answers. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

Paul Ewen

He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an intense, statesmanlike seriousness about the business of being alive.

Tim Martin

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

Virginia Alison

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

Sanober Khan

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

Jenna Alatari

Don’t know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

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 shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.

Kathleen M. Rodgers

The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her face, she wasn’t that impressed with what she saw. “Who is it, Ethel?”She responded, “It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.” And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.

Suzanne Kelman

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

Natalya Vorobyova

We put on a pot of tea, a necessity between these two writing friends. Wecould no more imagine writing without this hot sustenance than we couldwithout pen and paper. We sat at the table to talk shop, sort through ournotes, and make plans for the book. Then we settled down in the sunroom,giggling a little at the unexpected absurdity of our activity, editingwithin arm’s reach of each other, like toddlers at parallel play.

Mary Potter Kenyon

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