Writing Quotes
Trust your instincts. Do not confuse ego with instinct. Ego has to be set aside if you want to improve, and we should always want to improve. There is no glass ceiling on being better.
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.
Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper...
Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...
...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.
However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.
Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more...
We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.
Writing is Like waking on Water, Seems not possible at all, But Only person Understand Who Feel the Walking Sound of Tears while felling from Eyes
A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.
My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too.
Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can’t write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.
I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.
Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.
I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?
Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing
Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.
The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity
I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others
I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.
Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.
What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
