Top Writing Quotes

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchain...

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.

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mat...

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow...

Breathe in the beauty all around you.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

Life is the stuff of miracles.

Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful lan...

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before...

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming idea...

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping...