Writing Quotes

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either.

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay

A clever trick does not a concept make.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

A love of writing is far greater than any word count.

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

Good writing just isn't that common.

Authors can alter your life.

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

I journal my joy, and my joy expands exponentially forevermore. So be it.

Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.

I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.

To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality

We're not mad. We're inhabited

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.

Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

SUCCESS in WRITING occurs when your DREAMS are BIGGER than your EXCUSES.

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Ink, a Drug.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

Write to your fear.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.

Too many irons, not enough fire.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

Before there were books, we read each other.

If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.