Quotes About Writing

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

Words, ' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.