Writers Life Quotes

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there!

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich

In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

I believe the best reviews are any of those wherein readers share their true opinion, no matter how many stars they rate my work. When I receive responses from appreciative people thanking for useful and amusing reading, it feels like my wings stretch up and blood carries the highest happiness circulating in my veins. I think many writers will understand what I mean by that.

The worst reviews, by my mind, are those from individuals who enjoy entertaining themselves by writing something bad about books they actually never read, which is as clear as day from what they’re saying. It’s even more puzzling for an author to check some of these “honest” reviewers’ pages and see that they created their profile with one goal in mind; to post you a bad review, as there’s nothing else they wanted to rate.

He stares at meâ€”taking me inâ€”with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.

Kevin J. Fitzgerald

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Christopher Bram

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!

Ramana Pemmaraju

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Me to characters: talk to me people.

Good editors are priceless.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

Show me the contract.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

A cliffhanger is when ...

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Writer. Another word for poor.

The power of the delete key.

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

Jenn E.

I don’t do math.

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

When I was a schoolgirl my safe haven was a place at the uninhabited part of my parents’ house. I used to climb up to the large windowsill that was facing a spreading plum-tree in the garden. Reading books, or penning my own stories, diaries and poems, it was especially fun to rest there during the warmer seasons of the year with an open window, when the tree was all covered with tender, odorous blossom in spring, and with rich purple fruitage in summer.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

Charles Bukowski

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.

Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

But what is life without a passion?

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

With so many book projects filling mind and heart, it feels similar to pregnancy. Your own books are like your children—you have to give birth to them, raise them, and do your best to make sure they live happily. You know, you just HAVE TO put into writing all of those thoughts, words and ideas appearing and growing in your head. Otherwise, life will make no sense without it.

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.

When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.

Spread sunshine and inspiration.

Juliet M Sampson

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Adam Steven Page

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