“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
“Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!” — Monique Rockliffe Copy Share Image
“Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling,… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I… — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“How many great gems were lost to thought and not put down to pen. You can but think of just a few… — L.F. Young Copy Share Image
“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
“A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges… — Julie Tetel Andresen Copy Share Image
“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through… — Mindie Burgoyne Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us… — Graham Worthington Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“No writing is effortless. I’m not saying you can’t have a good day where the words just kind of flow, but even… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.” — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.” — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.” — Chris Everheart Copy Share Image
“This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.” — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
![“A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges as well, since language creates a meeting of the minds. I have long thought that these lines of dialogue carve out the lines of the central love relationship. The dialogue…” quote by Julie Tetel Andresen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/666/julie-tetel-andresen-95241_communication_a-good-part-of-the-physical-attraction-b_2036175.jpg)
![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)
