Writing Quote by Ker Dukey

“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

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are…

— Stephen King

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

— Heather Sellers

“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from rewriting it…

— Paul Hendrickson

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped…

— Maya Angelou

As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel…

— David Means

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little…

— Joe Hill

“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

“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.”

— Christy Hall

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with…

— Paul Johnson

“You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.”

— Scott William Carter