Quotes About Writing

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Be-patient for what was written for you was written by greatest of writers

Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.