Writing Quotes

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

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

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

Be Visionary ...

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

Honestly...this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity.

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer, ' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.

They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.

When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.

Imagination, curiosity, passion, creativity these are the words that move me!

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

For the curious, I write

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

Writers are the wind that sail words across the page.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.

Life. Is a sentence, therein, weave your story toward freedom.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

Words writers choose are like a glimmering reflection into our souls.

Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.