Top Writing Quotes

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

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.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builde...

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misan...

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

But how? my students ask. How do you actually do it? You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creati...

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet d...

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of h...

I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Tell me something wonderful, he said to Dane. Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.You're always writing one of your plays on the phone, said Dane.I said, something wonde...

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality