Broken Writer Quotes

#1. Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. I didn't know the meaning of the word dying until you left me. This last week without you.." He pulls in a sharp breath, briefly closing his eyes. "I'm nothing without you Tru, nothing.

Samantha Towle

#3. To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish.

Nikki Rowe

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

Quentin R. Bufogle

#5. The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Ann Voskamp

#6. If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.

Paul Graham

#7. TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

Roseanne Barr

#8. Long ago I was a teacher and then a writer, but now I am a tender of broken bodies and injured souls.

Gea Haff

#9. Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.

Joss Stirling

#11. I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.

John Logan

#12. Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Cullen Hightower

#13. His feet where retarded.

Stephen Crane

#14. If your flesh is not submitted to you, then it will defeat power, anointing, and talent

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. "I'm really glad you found me," my voice cracking.
Simon squeezed my hand. His lips lowering to my ear, whispering, "I - "
He went rigid, head lifting.
"Hey, Simon," Tori said behind me.
"What is she doing here?"
Derek jabbed his thumb at me. "Ask her. I'm not getting any answers."

Kelley Armstrong

#17. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

Charlotte Eriksson

#18. A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...

Alice Walker

#19. And you couldn't make a snowman in your neighborhood because?
Because you weren't there.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. The only way to defend language is to attack it ... ' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression, broken a range of rules laid down by previous writers.

Alain De Botton

#21. His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity.

R. Buckminster Fuller