Quotes About Writing

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn't excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.

Tú eres el que escribe tu destino. Dios, el Universo o la Vida te han dado la tinta y el papel para hacerlo, pero tú lo escribes.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an dliving there, were so often extraordinary and dramatic that they cried out for description.

bestselling and award-winning author Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre. She has written close to 90 books translated in four languages. With over 10 million copies sold, Wanda's stories consistently earn spots on the nation's most prestigious

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Prose divides shame into stations.

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

What matters is action. Not to think about writing, but to write. Not to think about sailing, but to sail. Not to think about loving, but to love.

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.