Writing Quotes
You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...
A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong
As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.
It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.
When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.
She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.
As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.
Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.
Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.
She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.
The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.
John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.
Drink up my honey eyes, Kiss them shut every night, And be my 'one' all my life.
Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.
An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
