Quotes About Writing

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Escribir es que le dejen a uno llorar y reír a solas".

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter."

The best spells are the ones you write yourself.

The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.

My hand is cramping up as I go into a whirl writing out rebuttal points. I glance at the audience again and my eyes connect with Tia and for one second, one minuscule nanosecond, I detect we're on the same wavelength: she's also worried we'll lose. It's the only time we're connected together against another object - not each other.

A novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The semicolon is a much neglected beast

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

We see the Snowflake design for this book.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one's body when one is writing.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

If you want to write ... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Writing is survival. Not to write, for many of us, is to die. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.