Writing Quotes
To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!
Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.
Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.
They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.
I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.
We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoughts, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas, and editing our fragmented beliefs.
When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.
We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.
The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.
Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.
The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.
Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.
I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind
If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.
Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.
When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.