Top Writing Quotes

Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to r...

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that w...

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.

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...

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywher...

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

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

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Q: What's the biggest myth about writing?A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate.[

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind m...

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, n...

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself l...