Writers Advice Quotes

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around. ~ Alan Thicke

Well, I definitely advise anyone who wants to write, write. Don't let anyone tell you that you shouldn't. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't. Because a lot of people can be very discouraging to people who say they want to be a professional writer. If you want to do it, then chase it. Chase your dreams. Follow your heart. If that's what you want, go after it. Write it out. You never know, you could be the next big thing. ~ Helena Lancaster

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ~ Lillian Hellman

Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job. ~ Nora Roberts

Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer's imagination. ~ Chip R. Bell

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband. ~ Ruta Sepetys

You're an idiot," Preston says.

"Excuse me?"

"You're an idiot, sir?" he tries again.

"Just tell me how much she likes Dave, Preston. I don't have time for this girly bullshit." Jesus fuck, am I going to have to resort to getting girl advice from my gay assistant? What the hell has my life come to? Sandra has turned everything upside down.

"She doesn't like Dave. She likes you. She's had a crush on you forever and I'm totally breaking girl code telling you any of this."

"Then why the hell is she spending the weekend with Dave?" I ask, ignoring his girl code.

"But you know Sandy's a nice girl. She doesn't know what to make of a guy who fucks her in his office but never asks her to dinner," Preston continues. Apparently girl code is over. "Women are complex creatures, Gabe. They think it means something when a man takes his sweet-ass time asking her on a date. They think it means you're just interested in the sex." He narrows his eyes at me. "Obviously that's not the case here, as based on the way you look at that girl it's clear you're already half in love with her."

I really am getting girl advice from my gay assistant

"Since you know everything, care to tell me where she went with Dave?"

"Marissa's wedding."

"Who the hell is Marissa?"

"Hello? She works here? In sales?"

I shrug. Still no idea who he's talking about.

"You kno ~ Jana Aston

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it. ~ Susan Hill

The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature. ~ James Dobson

Livia stayed silent and tried to quiet the screaming in her head. Fuck your mother, Blake! She was a drunk and a coward. You were a child, not a man, and you were only trying to end your own pain. She held tight to Dr. Lavender's advice. Listen. This was Blake's plane crash. Livia's silence invited him to continue. ~ Debra Anastasia

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. ~ Sissy Spacek

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background. ~ Robin Thede

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. ~ Don DeLillo

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. ~ L.M. Montgomery

A writer's work is to witness things. ~ Edward Hoagland

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. ~ Larry Niven

Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence - more plow horse than show horse. ~ James C. Collins

Rhythm, repetition, making patterns
these are not only important devices for shaping the strange and abstract instrument/object we call a poem or a story, but they are craved as well because of our primordial need for reassurance, the sense of security we get from moving over the known. A mystery doesn't lose power in revisiting. Writing is not just to know, it is also to console. We need to be reminded that we are part of the obscure rhythm of birth and decade. It is the humming that matters. ~ Breyten Breytenbach

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. ~ Northrop Frye

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. ~ Francine Prose

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. ~ Dave Barry

You often hear advice from successful people that you should "follow your passion." That sounds perfectly reasonable the first time you hear it. ~ Scott Adams

If you can't be happy about everything, then just be happy about something, or some thing. Surely there is one thing in your life, at the very least, that you are happy about - perhaps as simple as being happy you have the ability to read these words and understand the concept proposed.

Some people are happy at just being alive. I know I am. It sure beats the alternative. ~ Rob Kozak

It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished. ~ Vasily Grossman

There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture' or (to redefine this subject) anyone who is uneasy about the systematic, massified cretinization of the major media. If you denounce the excess coverage, you are yourself adding to the excess. If you show even a slight knowledge of the topic, you betray an interest in something that you wish to denounce as unimportant or irrelevant. Some writers try to have this both ways, by making their columns both 'relevant' and 'contemporary' while still manifesting their self-evident superiority. Thus - I paraphrase only slightly - 'Even as we all obsess about Paris Hilton, the people of Darfur continue to die.' A pundit like (say) Bob Herbert would be utterly lost if he could not pull off such an apparently pleasing and brilliant 'irony. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast. ~ Linda Nelson

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. ~ Tiffany Madison

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear ... ~ Martha Ostenso

Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people. ~ Janet Fitch

Live, Love and be grateful you are capable of it. ~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~ Bertrand Russell

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you. ~ Stormie O'martian

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ~ Jodi Picoult

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. ~ Don Roff

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ~ Leland Stanford