Top Writing Quotes

Be the spark.

I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...

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.

A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut.

See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.

Storytelling keeps life going.

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a h...

It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone,...

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Writers are cut open on the page.

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me....

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, b...

Edinburgh is alive with words.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.