“...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
“Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe –… — David G. Allen Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.” — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not… — William S. Wilson 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
“Writing doesn’t get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, you’re probably still learning the craft. You… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on… — Bill Watterson 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
“So I write thoughts and emotions Taking birth in words And dying unsung in words! Words stitched together To give meaning to… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.] CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back? CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin. CALVIN:… — Bill Watterson 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 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
“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“[At first, Calvin's at school, in his classroom.] CALVIN'S TEACHER: "We'll see what the principal has to say about your attention span,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise,… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...” — John Geddes 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
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
“Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.” — Tenaya Jayne Copy Share Image
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark… — Zan Marie Steadham Copy Share Image
“From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?” — David H. Millar Copy Share Image
“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.” — Arthur Plotnick Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
![“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.] CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back? CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin. CALVIN: Can I just steer then? I promise I won't crash. CALVIN'S MOM: No, Calvin. CALVIN: Can I work the gas and brakes while YOU steer? CALVIN'S MOM: No, Calvin. CALVIN: You…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/bill-watterson-728_childhood_calvin-s-mom-is-driving-him-somewhere-ca_2822241.png)
![“[At first, Calvin's at school, in his classroom.] CALVIN'S TEACHER: "We'll see what the principal has to say about your attention span, young man." A THOUGHT BUBBLE FANTASY FROM CALVIN's MIND (With visuals to match.) "The valiant Spaceman Spiff has been captured." A THOUGHT BUBBLE FANTASY FROM…” quote by Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/bill-watterson-728_attention-span_at-first-calvin-s-at-school-in-his-class_2747925.jpg)
![“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/mark-twain-22_books_t-he-rules-of-writing-require-that-the-p_2169332.png)
