Writing Quotes
As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.
A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.
Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.
Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.
Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They just don’t. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring.
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.
What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?
Take a journey into the world of possibilities.You will be amazed with your adventure.
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
I Grew Up In A Family With No Prejudices. My Father Always Believed There Were Good And Bad In Every Ethnic Background, And Nationality.
Ever Since I Can Remember, I Have Always Been a Huge Advocate for Women and Children.
I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.
Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.