Top Writing Quotes

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...

Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!

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.

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.

And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Be the spark.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.

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

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an enti...

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.

Love is the universal language.

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of...

If someone tells you something is impossible, make it possible.

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.