Writing Quotes

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.

Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

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

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

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

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

Tighten your prose so the story flows.

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

...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.

I don’t mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don’t want to die like one.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

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.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

What doesn't kill me provides writing material.

Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Don’t ever let yourself surrender to writer’s block.