“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will… — Stanley Christopher Copy Share Image
“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“I let my thoughts bare little feet ramble on the narrow cobblestone alleys, hoping they find their way out of the petite… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed… — Mary Cappello Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind” — Kevin Cowdall Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...” — Belle Whittington Copy Share Image
“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.” — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” — Christie Silvers Copy Share Image
“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.” — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!” — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image