writers-quotes

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It__ about the writer you__e becoming while creating

That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity.

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

A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

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

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

If I'm not a writer, who am I?

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

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.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one.

Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere...

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

Just _ isn__ giving up allowed sometimes? Isn__ it okay to say, __his really hurts, so I__ going to stop trying_?