Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.