1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

A writer is a maniac who toils laboriously to assemble a sequence of squiggles that generate a parlor of hallucinations in an attempt to jailbreak her own mind out of the prison of her subvocalizations.

Stare at the blank screen for at least an hour until it bleeds. It will bleed.

Wild fires burn within my soul, there's where all my words rise from...

Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.

Humankind’s perpetual affinity for telling stories that depict the weal of life shapes and reflects human consciousness. Stories are the most ancient form of art. All societies, from the tribes scratching the earliest cave drawings, employed the art of storytelling. We hunger to hear other people’s stories and to tell our own stories to an appreciative audience.

Writers resist the terrifying silence that engulfs us.

Writing is work with a purpose. Writers all throughout history labored to discover a spiritual and life-affirming means to live and attempted to share their faithful or pessimistic vision with other people.

We do not demand perfection in logic or absence of subjective thinking from any writer. We read about other people’s lives not because they possess the innate infallibility of judgment. We read other people’s life stories to understand the history of their peculiarities and partialities.

Life is untidy. My writing is messy. Life yo-yos up and down. My writing undulates. I do not fly straight. Akin to a broken arrow, I yaw in the wind. I write the way that I lived, without submission to silly rules and without undue modesty.