Writing Quotes - Page 26

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Katelyn S. Bolds

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Ernest Hemingway

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

M. Kirin

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

M. Kirin

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

M. Kirin

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

M. Kirin

You were meant to write this book.

M. Kirin

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

M. Kirin

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer.

M. Kirin

Write the words "The FIve Senses" on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bulletin board above your desk, if at all possible. Some place where you can tack images, quotes, postcards, scraps of thoughts and ideas that will help remind you of you you are and what you're doing.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay at home and still be public.

To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You don’t simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longing and worry about your own wife and children, you are burdened with experiencing the emotional states of multitudes of others you don’t know.

M.J. Rose

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Kevin James Breaux

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

M. Kirin

I became a writer when I learnt how to read -- how to listen; how to see, smell, touch, and feel. But not everyone who knows these things, not everyone who writes, or publishes, is a writer. Writing is in the soul.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

M. Kirin

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.

M. Kirin

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.

M. Kirin

Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.

M. Kirin

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write.

M. Kirin

All great writers share one thing in common:They finished their books.

M. Kirin

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

M. Kirin

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.

How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Ana Claudia Antunes

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Debasish Mridha

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Debasish Mridha

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

Debasish Mridha

...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

Janice Valencia Capulso

I learn my world through writing.

Charlotte Eriksson

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Diana Wynne Jones

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry....

Virginia Alison

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Melody Robinette

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Melody Robinette

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

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