Writing Quotes
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.
Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.
I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.
What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.
The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.
Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!
...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
You have to stop and freeze the moment, " he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.
Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.
Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.
Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.
I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is rarely lonely.
One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your life!
Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.
Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our hands" -
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.
