Writing Quotes

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.

IntoxicatedWith the madnessI'm in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three....

Crazy by definition isKnowing that true sanity isA figment of the educated mind

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

Learn the rules before you break them.

Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous, " unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

For some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.", Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

I don't write stories, I write characters.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

I write to reach eternity

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.