Writing Quotes
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.
I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.
Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.
I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.
Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.
The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.
My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
Always remember that your memoir is never about you. It's about your reader. At it's core, it's about that shared space where we all experience the timeless truths of what it means to be human.
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice." -Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.
Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.
What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.