All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell 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
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
