150+ Writing Quotes Every Author Needs to Read Now

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.