Writing Quotes

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

Naomi Kinsman

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

Veronica Roth

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great......and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.THAT is why you write fiction.

Holly Lisle

Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

Nona Mae King

It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await!

Belle Whittington

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Charles Bukowski

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve Lopez

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Sally Odgers

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Ana Hart

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel.

Francesca Lia Block

I never met a word I didn't love

Gail Carson Levine

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Carlos J. Cortes

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Ginnetta Correli

Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

Anne Rice

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have -- your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.

Rachel Hartman

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Walter Mosley

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Janet Burroway