Writer Quotes - Page 8

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

I am, as it were, the created creating - a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

I find pain, rather beautiful.
It has a chaotic way of shaking up
Everything we once ignored,
To empower us to move past
Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.

I
started
creating;
Myself
From
The
Inside
Out
&
My
God
I
Wish
I
Had
Done
It
Sooner.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.