writing-life

I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you__e just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.

Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors._

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn__ build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.