Writing Quotes

When a character comes to life, it’s like meeting a new friend for the first time.

One Lifetime is not enough.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Follow the rules until you make them.

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it anything more than that is advertising.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.

There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

we do not write as we want but as we can

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Send message to the future by writing it today!

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

I'm sorry, " Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.