Writing Quotes
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.
As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.
Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.
There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.
You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.
Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.
Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.
I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water.
I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings
Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.
There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.
Whenever I write I always transport myself into the story to get a better glimpse to what I am capturing.
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it
If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.
We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.