Writing Books Quotes

Writing Books Quote of the day

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Relationship are easy when times are good, BUT THE TRUE TEST IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN ( ONE IS BLIND AND OTHER IS VICTIM OF SILENCE ) AND TIMES ARE TOUGH.

It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

You have enough to create what you want.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

Write It, Work It, Publish

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

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

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

Books are readable drugs.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.