Top Writing Quotes

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot prec...

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.

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.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

Sometimes, I marvel at the wonderof how graceful words seem to appearpen to paper; in others' handsAnd I think to myself-oh, how obsolete my existence is,to be unable to do the same.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of to...

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply ne...

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.

Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing h...