“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.” — Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill 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
“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
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“There's only one absolute rule in writing: None of us gets it right the first time. Revise, reverse, reinvent, re-vision.” — Jane Yolen 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
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” — Hemingway, Ernest 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
“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find… — R.M. Engelhardt 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
“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like… — Stephen King 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
“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
“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
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand.… — Julian Lorr Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like planting a vegetable seed. The first day your book is out there is the same as seeing… — Kevin Ortegel Copy Share Image
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until… — L.K. Madigan Copy Share Image
“No... it never takes your breath away, telling you things you already know, laying everything out flat, as though the terms and… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why the publishers in New York don’t take a tip from Hollywood and just publish the outlines of novels… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Every day is a new day, every moment cherished was once a blank page” — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.” — Nancy LaRonda Johnson Copy Share Image
“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others… — Chasta Schneider Copy Share Image
“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“I'm smart 1 day out of 30, but I never know which day it will be so I have to sit patiently,… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
