“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.” — Joe Coomer 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
“If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.” — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.” — Betsy Lerner 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
“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 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
“I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“My rule is never save bits. They get in the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.” — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.” — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien 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
“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and… — Terry Pratchett 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
“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
“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future,… — Gerard de Marigny 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
“Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate… — Molly Cochran Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
“She logged in and read a few of her old posts, smiling at the issues she had raged about and shaking her… — Shweta Ganesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Real writers write. Period. No, the muse does not come to visit everyday. She’s a lazy, precocious flirt. You cannot get into… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Every once in a bestseller list, you come across a truly exceptional craftsman, a wordsmith so adept at cutting, shaping, and honing… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.” — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
![“And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. I love the feeling of Peter's story, someone may say. It had something... a sense of I don't know... there's a loving kind of you know... I…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/stephen-king-13_writing_and-what-about-those-writers-workshop-cr_1716135.jpg)
![“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is screaming the following words at the top of her lungs: CALVIN! Quiet down and quit that splashing! I don't want to have to clean the whole bathroom! CALVIN: Ha! I pulled the plug!…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/bill-watterson-728_childhood_uh-oh-it-s-bath-time-for-calvin-mom-who_1561979.jpg)
