Top Writing Advice Quotes

Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

It's not pain. It's raw material.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter, the character development, the world-building become m...

When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.

Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me.

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

I would write:The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.Or:The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.The ol...

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

You can only write well ,what you have lived.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story