Writing Tips Quotes

The best cure for cranial constipation is emotional fiber. Feel 'something', anything.
Pain, anger, joy; if your heart goes eerily cold or leaps erratically from your chest, your synaptic bowels will soon find release. ~ Muse

That's being yourself. Chasing wherever inspiration goes, even if it's radically different from the thing that people know you as. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other. ~ Teresa Mummert

Tighten your prose so the story flows. ~ Anna Dobritt

Poems must, of course, be written in emotional freedom. Moreover, poems are not language but the content of the language. ~ Mary Oliver

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do. ~ Chloe Thurlow

I work my inspiration til I find a spark of life in it
I draw on it
I siphon it
I earn my multi-hyphenate. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot. ~ John Gardner

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there. ~ J.R. Young

When I first started following writers on social media, I imagined a deluge of profound quotes, writing tips and insights into the plight of wordsmiths. There was some of that. Mostly though, my timeline was taken up with their obsession with coffee: 'I want coffee/I'm having coffee/I've had coffee.' Then came photos of their favourite coffee mug/pot/shop/barista. So, if you've enjoyed a recently-published book, give credit to writers: the vampiric aficionados of the coffee cherry. ~ Stewart Stafford

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. ~ Carla H. Krueger

On jealousy: You may also need to deal with jealousy. When someone is jealous, they may try to "take it, break it, or denigrate it." Criticism can originate from jealousy's 'denigrate' motivation. Criticism can also start from someone trying to take your voice, or spirit, and break it. [p. 96] ~ Jill Hackett

If Fifty Shades is your idea of a good book, you have no idea what a good book is. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.
Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one. ~ Uma Nnenna

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that. ~ Arti Honrao

Write what you know. But make sure someone else would want to know it too! ~ Matthew Culberson

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs. ~ A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style, but a voice all their own. ~ Naveed Saleh

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart! ~ Varsha Dixit

People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"
From the worst moments in my life.
I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times. ~ Sandy Nathan

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand. ~ Carla H. Krueger

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish. ~ Eliza Green

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed. ~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve. ~ Noah Lukeman

When one sense is diminished, the others burn more brightly. In a blindfold, you feel every minute motion of his hand as it crosses your body, his fingertips finding secret places, his palm on bare buttocks, his cock nudging at your clitoris. ~ Chloe Thurlow

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Make it unique and make it shine. ~ Darynda Jones

the most important in writing it should be from you heart ~ Endik Koeswoyo

Gavin said that writing novels with a PC was supposed to be easier than writing with a typewriter and bond paper, or with a pen and foolscap, or with a chisel and a granite obelisk imported from Greece. I shook my head with pity as he related this canard to me. ~ Gary Reilly

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. ~ Tom Robbins

Don't just tell me your brother is funny-show me what he says and does and let me decide whether I want to laugh. ~ Dennis G. Jerz

Do not write for the many who would disparage your words but for the few who would die if not for the consumption of your works. ~ J.N. Race

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown. ~ Rob Bignell, Editor

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in. ~ Uma Nnenna

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something. ~ Chelsea Cain

What makes a good book? An author who knows how to leave out all the unnecessary bulk and delivers a lean story where not a single word is fluff. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible ~ Barack Obama

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work. ~ William T. Vollmann

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. ... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go. ~ Margaret Atwood

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir. ~ Jello Biafra

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them. ~ John McNally

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon ~ Garrison Keillor

If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book ... it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about. ~ Tao Lin

Everyone is blessed in their own way. One can be blessed in writing and not sports. No matter what you are blessed don't forget that. ~ Braxton Stewart

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. ~ Carrie Brownstein

My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category. ~ Alissa Nutting

I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it. ~ Sara Winters

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing. ~ Anne-Marie Duff

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist. ~ Nick Flynn

Just handling this ocean of different books - new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten - it was literature as this giant mosaic of texts and experiments and attitudes. I think it's just very liberating to break out of a great man's theory of history.
I guess I've always liked working from that sense of - what would you call it? - license that the margins permit. I always just visualize myself writing books that were meant one day to be dusty, forgotten volumes being encountered by intrepid browsers in a used bookstore. It was a much less freighted way to think about trying to enter the conversation than to imagine I had to write The Great Gatsby. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. ~ Ani DiFranco

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about ... only out of time to write it in. ~ Rayne Hall

I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen when she's writing. The way she laughs. The way she smiles. The way she's kind. The way she cares. The way she listens. Just everything. She's just incredible. I've never met anyone quite like her before. ~ Kiki Archer

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML. ~ Tim Berners-Lee

I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug. ~ Greg Grunberg

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it. ~ Rick Riordan

Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps. ~ Harry Bauld

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it. ~ Ajay Devgan

I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write. ~ Ben Fountain

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights. ~ Orson Scott Card

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once. ~ Pico Iyer

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe. ~ Questlove

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible. ~ Rabih Alameddine

I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints. ~ Woody Allen

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. ~ Anita Diament

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ~ Tom Stoppard

... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic. ~ Jonathan Oliver

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper. ~ Paul Auster

McKee's a genius. And hillarious. You'll like him, too, Charles. He's all for originality, just like you.
He says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre and we must find our originality within that genre.
As it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary.

My genre's thriller, what's yours? ~ Donald Kaufman

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. ~ Dean Wesley Smith

Writing is the way I participate in the struggle. ~ Edwidge Danticat

Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability. ~ Pat Schneider

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write. ~ Moses Malone

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. ~ Chrys Fey

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method. ~ Neil Gaiman

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature. ~ James Frey

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write. ~ Emma Thompson

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously - but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself. ~ Woody Allen