If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?
L.A. JonesTags: inspirational-quotes perseverance writing-life
I should be writing ...
Mur LaffertyTags: writing-craft writers-on-writing writing-life writer-quotes
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert HassTags: writing writing-craft writing-life fiction-writing robert-hass
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
Kayla Rae WhitakerTags: writing writers-on-writing writing-life
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
Neil GaimanTags: writing elves writing-life
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott CardTags: writing writing-craft writing-life orson-scott-card
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
Stephen J. CannellTags: writing writing-craft writing-life writing-philosophy writing-process
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?
Annie DillardTags: reading writing understanding writing-life readers-and-writers
MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.
John RemberTags: writing creative-process writing-life writing-books creative-writing
Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.
Emma LaiTags: humor writing-life
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