All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”

“Writing is the great invention of the world.”

“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”

“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life’s work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”

“I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.”

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

“I’m writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.”

“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.”

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. (“The Adoration of The Magi”)”

“Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.”

“It’s in my blood, as magic is in yours.” His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. “I couldn’t stop writing even if I wanted to.”

“Write when you least feel like it,Because that’s when you write best.”

“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.”

“I say fuck the old advice ‘show, don’t tell.’ It’s called story TELLING for a reason, and I’ll stick to it!”