Writing Quotes

Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

I learn my world through writing.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

You were meant to write this book.

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer.

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.

With the right tools, you can write anything ...

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.