“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up… — A.J. Dalton Copy Share Image
“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it… — Judy Penz Sheluk Copy Share Image
“If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write… — Baby Halder Copy Share Image
Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write,… — Brenda Miller Copy Share Image