332 Quotes About Writers-life

When I was a schoolgirl my safe haven was a place at the uninhabited part of my parents’ house. I used to climb up to the large windowsill that was facing a spreading plum-tree in the garden. Reading books, or penning my own stories, diaries and poems, it was especially fun to rest there during the warmer seasons of the year with an open window, when the tree was all covered with tender, odorous blossom in spring, and with rich purple fruitage in summer.

Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there!

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich

He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.

You can ask somebody just about anything if you say you’re a writer first.

If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn’t write something bad.

I’m a Best-Selling author and humorist; my brother points out that a humorist is a writer who’s not funny enough to call themselves a comedian. Gotta love family.

A humorist is a writer who’s not funny enough to call themselves a comedian.