132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Writers must keep spilling their guts to the public until they go from saying 'Eew, that's gross' to 'Wow, look at that! Show us more!!' to 'Put it away, we've seen it before.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another.

Every book is a journey. It’s a conjunction of influences, ideas and knowledge.

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’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

She told me "I want to go to your hometown.Someday I will go there and I will smile till the time I will stay there and be happy because its your home town. I am going to see you in every wall, every street, every glass, in every person, in every wave of the sea and smile.

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’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.