Top Writing Advice Quotes

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir yo...

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other...

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Cutting words can cut your readers but if the intention is pure, the story will resonate loud and true.

Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.

Fresh writing and an original twist on an old idea. As much as this term is hated in the industry, it doesn't make it any less true. High concept. Simply put, you take a universal concept, something t...

You take a universal concept, something that has been done a million times (because everything has been done a million times), and add a fresh twist to it. Something no one saw coming. But mostly fres...

Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

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.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with...

Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements at the back of your mind to guide you while you write. When you have...

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the e...