Writing Quotes

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.

When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we make others brave. Brave is good.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...

To find new, keep moving forward ...

If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

I write because I want express

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

Author branding is the process of positioning an author as the center of attraction and influence, to be the preferred choice in a given theme, style, category, niche or genre

Either give it your all or don't even try!

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

The end is everything.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” —Allen Ginsberg, WD

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.