There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

Rob Bignell Writer Writers Block Writers Inspiration Writers Life Writers On Writing Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life Writing Process

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

~ Rob Bignell

Rob Bignell Writer Writers Inspiration Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writers World Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Inspiration Writing Life

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

~ Rob Bignell

Rob Bignell Writer Writers Inspiration Writers Life Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Inspiration Writing Life

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

~ Alan Mccluskey

Alan Mccluskey Charcters Existence Writing Books

The gift of writing, natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Book Writers Book Writing Gift Of God Gift Of Life Power Of Thoughts Power Of Words Read And Write Talented Talents And Gifts Thoughts On Life Thoughts On Writing Words Have Power Words To Inspire You Words To Live By Write And Be Heard Write And Read Writer S Block Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing From The Heart Writing Life Writing Process Writing Quotes Your Destiny Your Self

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

~ Jo Linsdell

Jo Linsdell Ideas Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Books Writing Process

Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation

~ Karl Wiggins

Karl Wiggins Words Of Wisdom Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Craft Writing From The Heart Writing Inspiration Writing Process Writing Quotes

MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.

~ John Rember

John Rember Creative Process Creative Writing Writing Writing Books Writing Life

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

~ R.k. King

R.k. King Author Quotes Inspirational Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Inspiration Writing Life

Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.--Fire Up Your Writing Brain

~ Susan Reynolds

Susan Reynolds First Drafts Novel Writing Screenplay Writing Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

~ Mylo Carbia

Mylo Carbia Author Quotes Famous Horror Books Filmmaking Hollywood Culture Horror Authors Horror Writer Screenwriting Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Carla H. Krueger Carla H Krueger Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life Writing Process Writing Tips

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Carla H. Krueger Book Lovers Book Quotes Bookworm Carla H Krueger Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life Writing Process Writing Tips

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Carla H. Krueger Carla H Krueger Money Money Quotes Rich People Rich Writer Writers On Writing Writers Quotes Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life Writing Process Writing Tips

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

~ Michelle C. Hillstrom

Michelle C. Hillstrom Writing Writing Books Writing Life Writing Process

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

~ Jessica E. Larsen

Jessica E. Larsen Reading Reading Books Writing Books Writing Life

Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.

~ Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Life

Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård Writing Writing Books Writing Process

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

~ Claudia Bakker

Claudia Bakker Characters Characters In Books Characters In Novels Writing Writing Books Writing Process

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Gudjon Bergmann Writing Writing Books Writing Process

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

~ Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin Writers On Writing Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Process Writing Style

People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, computers, tape recorders, and generally by the time they have reached this decision, they have had a simple education.

~ Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Process

If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.

~ Larry Correia

Larry Correia Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Craft Writing Process

Whenever people ask me, How are your books doing? or, How is your book doing? I just say, It's okay. I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author.

~ C. Joybell C.

C. Joybell C. Inspirational Writing Quotes About Authors Quotes About Writing Writers On Writing Writing Books

My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher who whacked my hand with a stick each time I struck the wrong key. I learned a few pieces, yes, but eventually my pen compelled me to write too much and the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind compelled me to climb trees too often. Sorry mom. Coincidentally, books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves... hhhmmmm... I guess I’m still just climbing trees now, but in a different way!

~ C. Joybell C.

C. Joybell C. Being A Writer Being An Author Books Climbing Trees Making Books Wind In The Leaves Writers On Writing Writing Writing Books

Make your heroes ambitious, always looking for more success and uniqueness.To write the best story you can, think of making your hero, or heroes, have an ambitious for an unlimited success.-How to write the best story-

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Quotes Writing Tips

Deal with your readers that theyare smart, and write a language thatsuits their intelligence.- How to write the best story-

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Quotes Writing Tips

Choose noble goals for your heroes.Make them Sympathize with the poor, collaborates on the good goals, always step forward for the good actions, the first ones to do the right things, care to reserve others rights, and respect the laws, traditions and values.

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi How To Write How To Write A Story Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Quotes Writing Tips

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

~ Tassa Desalada

Tassa Desalada Attitude Toward Life Humor Writing Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Philosophy

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

~ Khaled Talib

Khaled Talib Quotes About Writing Quotes And Saying Writing Advice Writing Books Writing Style

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

~ Marion Dane Bauer

Marion Dane Bauer Authors Writing Books Writing From The Heart

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

~ Paul W. Feenstra

Paul W. Feenstra Author Quotes Authors On Writing Quotes Author Paul W Feenstra Writing Books Writing Inspirationg Writing Philosophy Writing Quotes

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

~ Alan Garner

Alan Garner Writing Writing Books Writing Quotes

When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through my writing is as close to magic as I'll ever get again.

~ Dori Ann Dupré

Dori Ann Dupré Writing Writing Books Writing Books Quote Writing Books Quotes Writing Philosophy Writing Quotes

I’m typing this as loudly as I can to deceive our lovely Indian maid that I can type amazingly quickly and that this is of vital importance, and that’s why I need her to come into the house three times a week and clean the floors, scrub the toilets, polish the stainless steel and buff the porcelain. Did I spell that right? I don’t know, but I’m not going to stop to check – she’s listening!

~ Eskay Teel

Eskay Teel Humourous Situations India Writing Books

Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't stop it. Just let yourself think of anything, no mater how silly the thoughts seem. Remember, not to judge these thoughts. This will open up your creative receptors. You'll begin to think outside the box. Then the good stuff will start racing through you. That's when you start writing!

~ La Tisha Honor

La Tisha Honor Creativity Quotes Creativity Writing Quote Imagination Quotes Imagination Writing Writer S Advice Writer S Block Writers Quotes Writing Books Writing For Children

Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their own.

~ Naveed Saleh

Naveed Saleh Article Writing Journalism Reference Style Guides Writing Books Writing Craft Writing Style

There is an underlying rhythm to all text. Sentences crashing fall like the waves of the sea, and work unconsciously on the reader. Punctuation is the music of language. As a conductor can influence the experience of the song by manipulating its rhythm, so can punctuation influence the reading experience, bring out the best (or worst) in a text. By controlling the speed of a text, punctuation dictates how it should be read. A delicate world of punctuation lives just beneath the surface of your work, like a world of microorganisms living in a pond. They are missed by the naked eye, but if you use a microscope you will find a exist, and that the pond is, in fact, teeming with life. This book will teach you to become sensitive to this habitat. The more you do, the greater the likelihood of your crafting a finer work in every respect. Conversely the more you turn a blind eye, the greater the likelihood of your creating a cacophonous text and of your being misread.

~ Noah Lukeman

Noah Lukeman Punctuation Self Editing Writing Books Writing Craft