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A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing. — Debasish Mridha

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it. — Irwin Shaw

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

The writer's life is frightful — Lailah Gifty Akita

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. — Sandra Brown

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased. — Avijeet Das

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day. — Jason E. Hodges

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy.
Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher. — Tarang Sinha

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The secret of being a successful writer is
write. Every writer deserves that chance. — Millicent Ashby

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. — Fennel Hudson

Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell. — Nadege Richards

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. — Dana Stabenow

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? — Slash Coleman

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

Writing is a way of life. — Kayla Lowe

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words. — Jamie L. Harding

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. — Charlotte Eriksson

A Writer Must Have Text Appeal — Khaled Talib

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

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

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. — Neil Gaiman

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. — Carla H. Krueger

I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music. — Jenim Dibie

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. — Ignazio Silone

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer! — Samuel Colbran

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life. — Richard Selzer

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

I'm a writer. Life is supposed to pass me by, while I watch it. — Nick Hornby

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old. — Chris Crutcher

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could. — Rob Bignell, Editor

A pen name is a nickname. — A.D. Posey

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve. — Fennel Hudson

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. — Kellie Elmore

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. — Bill Barich

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. — Robert Rodriguez

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again. — Michelle M. Pillow

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. — Joanna Penn

Every book I've read appears in my writing. — Rob Bignell, Editor

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write. — Carla H. Krueger

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. — Stephen King

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink. — Muse

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. — Stefanos Livos

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. — Sandra Chami Kassis

Write the words on your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap. — Cassandra Duffy

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away. — Buffy Andrews

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City ... — Christy Hall

Be the author of your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer? — Dean Koontz

I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. — Angeline Trevena

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need. — Chloe Thurlow

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did. — Carla H. Krueger

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

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

I wear the writer pants in the family. — Buffy Andrews

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... — Erica Jong

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness. — Katelyn S. Bolds

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. — Debasish Mridha

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy. — Larry Brooks

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about. — Hanya Yanagihara

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. — Rossana Condoleo

The best kind of day is a writing day — Buffy Andrews

The story is the story is the story. — Heather O'Brien

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry. — Alexei Maxim Russell

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The writer's life is a sacred wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately. — Michelle D. Kwasney

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny. — Stephanie Lennox

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. — Tawni O'Dell

But what is life without a passion? — Avijeet Das

If you can't talk about, write about it! — Tracey Reddick

When a writer dies, he becomes his books. — Jorge Luis Borges