Aspiring Writers Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
— Diablo Cody
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to…
— Frances Hardinge
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that…
— Betsy Lerner
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The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
— Cheryl Strayed
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[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through…
— Tom Bissell
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,…
— Barry B. Longyear
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I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you…
— Jeffery Deaver
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My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand…
— Juliet Marillier
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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories…
— Ally Carter
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I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.
— Sunny
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine…
— Jim Harrison
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I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
— Susan Orlean
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A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
— Tom Robbins
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I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read…
— Khaled Hosseini
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My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New…
— Walter Kirn
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I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t…
— Rick Riordan
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write…
— D. J. MacHale
Who Wrote These Aspiring Writers Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Aspiring Writers Quotes as follows: