Character Quote by George R. R. Martin

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or novel, or…

— John Gardner

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing.…

— Douglas Adams

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write…

— Robert Morgan

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”

— Colette Freedman

The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing students -…

— Erik Larson

“You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling…

— James Dashner

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work…

— J. Michael Straczynski