36 quotes found
“Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”
“I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.”
“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”
“I havent had writers block. I think its because my process involves writing very badly.”
“Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous" (many), "facilitate" (ease), "Individual" (man or woman), "remainder" (rest), "initial" (first),...”
“I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.”
“In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”
“I turn sentences around. Thats my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence...”
“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”
“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.”
“If you want to write, write. Its as simple as that.”
“Dont know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.”
“I write because that is what I am supposed to do.”
“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.”
“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop”
“I write as if Ive lived a lot of things I havent lived.”
“Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.”
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.”
“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!”