“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?” She shrugged. “It’s entirely… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day… — Roman Payne 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
“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word.… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.” — Marcia Carrington 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
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.” — Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling Copy Share Image
“Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone. — Anonymous 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
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Step back and scrutinize your work, to delve deep into the meaning behind the words, it will get both easier in some… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
