Writing Quotes

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

All plots are cliche.

Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.

Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it’s not the world I want to change.

It'll be a change, " says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.

Life's adventures make great reading!

Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves. -RCSJR

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for

When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Writing is the best anti-depressant.

Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.

It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to.

Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

Content is King. Promotion is Queen

Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.