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Writing Craft Quotes: "It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block."

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.




Writing Craft Quotes: "Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page."

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.



Writing Craft Quotes: "In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity."

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.




Writing Craft Quotes: "I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper."

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.




Writing Craft Quotes: "That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.




Writing Craft Quotes: "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."

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.



Writing Craft Quotes: "One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break."

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.



Writing Craft Quotes: "It's the writing that teaches you."

It's the writing that teaches you.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Nobody reads a book to get to the middle."

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.




Writing Craft Quotes: "The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't."

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration."

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.



Writing Craft Quotes: "You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas."

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it."

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.



Writing Craft Quotes: "The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting."

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.




Writing Craft Quotes: "I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot."

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character."

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.



Writing Craft Quotes: "There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list."

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up."

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.



Writing Craft Quotes: "On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken."

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches."

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.



Writing Craft Quotes: "To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.



Writing Craft Quotes: "You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page."

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.



Writing Craft Quotes: "What I don't write is as important as what I write."

What I don't write is as important as what I write.



Writing Craft Quotes: "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."

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.



Writing Craft Quotes: "If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that."

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.



Writing Craft Quotes: "grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps."

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation."

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver."

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.



Writing Craft Quotes: "The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends."

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures."

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect."

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.



Writing Craft Quotes: "The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it."

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand."

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.



Writing Craft Quotes: "But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration."

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.



Writing Craft Quotes: "I just write whenever I can."

I just write whenever I can.



Writing Craft Quotes: "Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind."

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.



Writing Craft Quotes: "When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds."

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.



Writing Craft Quotes: "There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe."

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.



Writing Craft Quotes: "T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.



Writing Craft Quotes: "T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it."

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.



Writing Craft Quotes: "When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life."

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.