“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.” — Catherine Carrigan 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
“Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. — Gene Fowler 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
“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.” — Christina Cooke Copy Share Image
“To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of… — Dani Shapiro 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
“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
“Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is… — Danelle Morton 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
“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
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
“It is certainly the case that if you are often reviewed, you will find yourself repeatedly blamed and praised for saying what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford 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
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole 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
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig 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
“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman 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
“According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it… — Dorothy M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made… — Sandra Sealy 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
“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.” — Khaled Talib 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
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