If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.
Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.
If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.
Do not forget to write your sacred book.
[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. Th...
Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed his fictional men as archangels, the feminists would throw back their heads and howl, "...
Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.
What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant product will never correlate exactly to the truth, will...
Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.
Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!
No good story is quite true.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.