writers-quotes

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me __ purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

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

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence.

Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person__ level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.

Lately, I usually write at the desk in my living-room or bedroom. From time to time, our red and stripy cat named Foxy decides to be my companion, poking his curious caramel-colored nose to the screen, watching me typing, and making attempts to put his paws on the keyboard despite the fact that he knows he is not allowed to; he also loves to arrange __unbathing sessions for himself, purring joyfully while lying with his belly up under the lamp placed to the left of my computer; and, of course, the cat can__ wait for when I happen to have a snack, to beg for some treats that seem to him tastiest if eaten from a caring human__ hand.

Why the tag of __spiring_ writer be the wishful cliché? It__ like a bumper sticker. Say it! I am a Writer. Period. We may all have a target and gradation toward successes, a personal illusion/perception. The quality or perseverance in one__ craft is your act. Flaws? Sure. Yet, you are a Writer, not a wannabe. Let go of the tags. Just write!

Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.

At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer__ compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind.

Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing facilitates thinking; the reagent substances we produce through writing augment our expanding system of ideas. Writing boldly triggers a chain reaction in our philosophical structure and thus writing can operate to transform who we are.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

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

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.