150+ Writing Quotes Every Author Needs to Read Now

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want to.Write when you do.Write when you have something to say.Write when you don’t.Write every day.Keep writing.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.