Writing Quotes
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„
I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.
And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.
Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.
I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.
You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again.
Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.
For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.
Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solution. Condition your rawhide for growth. (Either way).
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...
Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.
They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.
...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
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 been careful enough
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.
