Writing Quotes

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

I am content when writing short stories.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

For now, I will say that God endowed humans with a great many powers and forces, and some of the creative, constructive powers can only be passed on through channels of others.”The Guardian

I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

You can make anything by writing

Find the good, and praise it.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

We all have the time we need to tell our stories.

When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

A great story can change the world.

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

Behind every drama is a good story...behind every tear is the person who wrote it.

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

There is something so innocent about blank pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence

It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Fanscination is what keeps a writer going. To be able to write, a writer has to be fascinated about a particular something that becomes the idea of the story

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.