About Writing Quotes

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.

Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words.

I wish to keep writing.

I am determined to write daily.

I only wish to write.

Every great writer is a great reader.

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.

Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE THEM. A SPARK. A SENSE OF MORALITY. A YEARNING.

By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.

Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

When life gives you lemons ~ write about 'em!

If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.

In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Kissing her to keep her quiet was the best idea that he’d had all week. One hand drifted into her loose hair as she responded to each kiss, while the other caught her waist and held her close to him.

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

Life is like a book written with lots of surprises, Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

I can't believe I wrote that many words in a row.

Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8

If you don't write, then read.

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.