Writing Quotes

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

Get black on white.

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

Writing:It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.

Writing is the emotional morphine.

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.

But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

My writing is how I maintain.

Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Arrogance kills creativity.

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

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Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, " he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

All Poets are mad.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that flows from their pen.

You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Shut up and write.

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

Only write a story that only you can write.