332 Quotes About Writers-life

Time heals all wounds; some broken hearts -- and most cases of writer's block.

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.