About Writing Quotes

...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Warum man schreibt, ist eine Frage die sich der Schriftsteller, völlig versunken in seine Arbeit, nicht stellt. Theorien sind das Gebiet derer, die nicht handeln.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...

The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

Fact is just fiction with different storytellers

Menulis itu peduli. Menulis itu mencinta.

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Revenge is a dish best served published!

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.

Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!

Stretch your writing muscles. Maybe the sophisticated technique nagging at you is something you’re just naturally good at. How else will you know?

The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

Honestly, I don’t know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!

A library is more precious than a bank.

Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

I write to understand what I know.

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel.

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.