Writing Quotes

I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.

Try everything

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.

Do not forget to write your sacred book.

[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.

The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.

They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.

why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.

Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

The best thing about being an author is the unspoken approval to dream while awake.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki