Writing Quotes Quotes

A writer must expect other people to criticize their work and open-mindedly consider all worthwhile suggestions. Martial arts master Bruce Lee advised anyone attempting to master a difficult enterprise to learn from other people but also liberally experiment and judiciously draw from our own well of intelligence and talent. ‘Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

~ Jason E. Hodges

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

~ M.e. Vaughan

Writing is capturing life, recording the human condition, and trying to glean meaning from it.

~ Joni M. Fisher

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

~ Naomi Wood

No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place.

~ Naomi Wood

But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long words that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb. every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what-these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to education and rank.

~ William Zinsser

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

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

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

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

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

~ Susan Orlean

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

~ Zadie Smith

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

~ Jim Jarmuscdh

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

~ Arthur Miller

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.

~ Truman Capote

Make it so good and so clear that it doesn't need any further explanation.

~ Shel Silverstein

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay

~ Susan Sontag

Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.

~ Raneem Kayyali

There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

~ Tarang Sinha

I am grateful to all my readers, you inspired me to keep writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

~ John Green

Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.

~ Jason E. Hodges

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?

~ Andrew Barger

When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.

~ Paige Skyler

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

~ Paul W. Feenstra

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

~ Ricardo Piglia

As they say, it’s possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

~ Sahara Sanders

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

~ Alan Garner

Writing allows you the unique and uncensored expression of whatever wants to be spoken.

~ Deborah Sandella

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

~ Tarang Sinha

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

~ Katie Merkel

Write something today that you future self will be proud of.

~ T.n. Suarez

Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

~ Christopher Holliday

I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the most delicious cherries on a cake one left for later so they can be savored to the utmost.

~ Sahara Sanders

There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person’s inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba