1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.

I usually write with a small audience in mind. This allows me to be intimate, purposeful and original.

For (D.L) Mayfield, "Parenting has made me eschew religiosity in exchange for a real relationship - full of questioning - of a God I hope is more loving than I can possibly imagine. I don't think we talk often enough about how children both make it essential and impossible to write. Madeleine for me is a patron saint of this.

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

I write in my head on the way home from work, or when mowing the lawn, or on a night out with friends. Sometimes I find the time to capture those words that are rolling through my mind, quivering and drumming and swimming, banging into each other until I can finally trick them and leak them out onto the page. And sometimes I don't. Writers are like that

words are tenderand sensitive toowords understandwhen others may not

You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life, sometimes that life is your own.

wrap my words around you as your shawl my words will warm your body and soul

I firmly believe that there are things we already know and spend a lot of time resisting. You can try, but the amount of energy you spent trying not to know what you already know will be exhausting.