“Contrary to popular belief, people always say "It was a pleasure doing business with you". It is the only thing that has… — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.” — Cecil Murphey Copy Share Image
“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of… — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through… — Mindie Burgoyne Copy Share Image
