Top Writing Quotes

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon...

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

Writing Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Write

(n.) The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs.

(n.) Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters

(n.) Any legal instrument, as a deed, a receipt, a bond, an agreement, or the like.

(n.) Any written composition; a pamphlet; a work; a literary production; a book; as, the writings of Addison.

(n.) An inscription.

(n.) Handwriting; chirography.

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and d...

Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metapho...

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spe...

Writing gives me wings.

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame wil...

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live a...

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...

Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotion...

They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.