“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.” — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.” — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.” — Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill Copy Share Image
“Details are extremely important. A story without details is like an action movie without special effects.” — Mark A. Roeder Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley” — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.” — Robin Helm Copy Share Image
“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.” — Brook Tesla Copy Share Image
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Stories are about secrets. We all have them. Secret dreams, fantasies, hopes and sometimes even desires. Occasionally a dream becomes reality and… — Rob Hopcott Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the… — Louis Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“It's not about you, it's about the story. It's not about the folks who raise an eyebrow because you're not yet published… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
