Writers Life Quotes

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

My Solo Adventure #1- Bali: Imagination unlocked, escaping a cage drawn by a relentless life. Soul freed, reaching beyond the hidden dimensions of an uncertain universe. Thirst. Hunger. Rebirth. For forever we are greedy.

The best kind of day is a writing day

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!

I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

Writer. Another word for poor.

Write for a cause,NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express,NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Show me the contract.

Good editors are priceless.

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

Having had virtually no contact with the outside world for the last few weeks, Evan had temporarily forgotten the social norms governing shopping conduct or approaching celebrities in public.

I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!And that the inimitable fragrance of your skin is more sublime than that of all the perfumes of this world!

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

We had the longest kisses under the Acacia tree.

The greatest occupation is the act of writing.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Love will find you when you least expect it to. It will come unannounced and find you in an unusual moment on the strangest of days!

You never know what you will write until you write it