Top On Writing Quotes

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

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 NOT the story.

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to the mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would n...

Write what should not be forgotten.

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what th...

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.