Writing Quotes

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.

Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Live first, write second.

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

Indentations on the page, words, my friends, and I will share them with you.

Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.

If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

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

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it, ' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

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

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.