Writing Quotes

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do wit

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.

Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

The best writing is when one writes from the soul

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

My purpose of writing is to express my love for you, no matter, who you are, where you live or whatever you do.

I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.

The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.

Last night I weaved dreams from the cobwebs of time!

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions.

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.

If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.

What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially unhappy love.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.

There is no apology for passion

Learned and sociological accepted lines, boundaries, internal perimeters, and partitions diminish the creative space within our minds' that is poised and ready.