Quotes About Writing

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So as I go along, I outline each book as I write it. I never outline ahead of the writing, but after the writing is done. That keeps the creative side of my brain in control of the writing.

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

Will you write?" I asked. "Probably not. The pen is a demanding mistress. I take delight in thwarting her expectations.

I motioned for Minka to bring me something to write with. She found a marker, bright blue and smelling like fruit, the sort of thing My Little Pony would use to sign a slam book.

Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one. Unexpected encounters with dog shit, definitely.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

Write before the sun comes up.

I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again

I write because it's a beautiful habit

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

I write because I know magic happens

I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

I write because I want to give strength to myself

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.