Writing Quotes

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

No one has yet tested the pencilTo see how many words it can write

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

It's not always so easy, " she said softly."Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.

I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

Art does what reality cannot.

Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86, 400 seconds today.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself.

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there.

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.

There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

Widening blood puddles spilled from suffocating death wounds.

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

As they say, it’s possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

One single letter cures the blank page.

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

Write something today that you future self will be proud of.

Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!

...and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

those who does not read, they miss the important aspects of life.

Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.

A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.

When I write I face my demons, and defeat them.