A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation” — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending,… — Brooklyn Hudson Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self 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 basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have… — Dani Shapiro 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
“It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.” — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
“Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.” — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.” — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry for writing you a four-page letter. I did not have time to write you a one-page letter.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins” — Christina Collins Copy Share Image
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.” — Danielle Ackley-McPhail Copy Share Image
