Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren AdlerTags: inspirational-quotes writing-advice inspirational-success-failure
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Warren AdlerTags: writing-advice writing-life writing-process
Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
Stephen KingTags: writing writing-advice
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Neil GaimanTags: advice writing criticism writing-advice
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
David NichollsTags: inspirational writing-advice motivating
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: writing writers writing-advice
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Virginia WoolfTags: writing-advice writing-life
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Tags: inspirational writers-block writing-advice writers-on-writing
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. ...this book...is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.
Drink and be filled up.
Tags: inspirational writing-advice writers-on-writing writing-philosophy writing-from-the-heart
No good story is quite true.
Leslie StephenTags: writing-advice
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