Writing Quotes

Just surrender to the story.

~ A.d. Posey

It ends when you’re ready for a new beginning.

~ A.d. Posey

One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.

~ A.d. Posey

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.

~ A.d. Posey

Screenwriting is made of brevity.

~ A.d. Posey

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.

~ A.d. Posey

Novelist by day, screenwriter by night.

~ A.d. Posey

Writers don't have bad life days, they just have good research days.

~ Julie Wright

The key is in the craft.

~ A.d. Posey

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins.

~ A.d. Posey

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

~ A.d. Posey

Write before the sun comes up.

~ A.d. Posey

Own your truth.

~ A.d. Posey

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

~ A.d. Posey

It’s always more than just a story.

~ A.d. Posey

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

~ A.d. Posey

Take your ego out of your story.

~ A.d. Posey

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

~ Kevin Cowdall

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

~ Richard Ford

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we're going to for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.

~ Anne Lamott

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

~ Anamika Mishra

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.

~ K.d. Green

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

~ Oliver Markus

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.

~ Sharif Khan

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

~ Stephen King

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

~ Elena Ferrante

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

~ Bryan Way

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

~ Johnny Rich

Writers should be heard, not seen.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

~ Anamika Mishra

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession which encourages them to stay at their desk for years, if necessary, pondering what to say next and how best to say it. Interviewers propose to speed up this process by trepanning writers, so to speak, and fishing around in their brains for unused ideas which otherwise might never get out of there. Not a single idea has ever been discovered by means of this brutal method-- and still the trepanning of authors goes on every day.I now refuse all those who wish to take the top off my skull yet again. The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Writing is like daydreaming through your fingers.

~ Jenna Alatari

Don’t know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

~ Carolyn V. Hamilton

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

~ Sanober Khan