writers-life

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I__ proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That__ the nature of art.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one__ memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

A writer is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul__ grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

I didn__ need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?