Writing Quotes

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.

Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Love is the best drug, bar none.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.

The structured form of an outline helps us to keep track of all plot lines in a series, and of course, this diminishes the chance of plot holes for us.

Don’t hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you’re writing, - Michael Connelly

You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY

I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Good writing is rhythm.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

Don't let others define your dreams.

Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.

We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.~Tanela Hicks

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters."~Tanela Hicks

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.

It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!