Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days…it will demand absolutely everything of you.

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it’s useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how...

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude and shared with everybody at any time?

From … the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. … I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that...

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Sometimes I don’t even know why I’m writing what I’m writing…I’m just following these people around and taking notes.

I’m just a girl, with a pen and a dream

…writers, like priests, should have compassion…and a sensitivity to pain…

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even in death her life sought out beauty, for her moments were consumed with...

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and...

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone,...

The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.” PSALM 37:29. ~Stop being envious no one can make it without the true help of a honest individual or someone who believes...

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave...

A writer is like a stick of rock – the words go right through.

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn’t mean I can’t say it to the rest of the world. I’m not a poet. Nor do I try to be...

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer,...

As a writer, I’ve always been interested in others.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

The only good death is a life well lived.

I don’t believe in writer’s block.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Love takes courage, if you’re doing it right. Not the kind of courage a soldier has, but the kind of courage a writer has. Say, I’m a writer, and I’m a lover—therefore I must be...

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.

It’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’m just now putting on clothes. The life of a writer is as free as the pizza I just had delivered is not.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I’m not a great writer.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You don’t simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longing and...

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I had decided that I wanted to earn my living as a writer and the only place in Waterbury where they paid you for writing was at the local newspaper. My opportunity came when the...

…when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself…

…writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the...

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.