writers-quotes

Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration.

You think you have no __alent_? Write anyway. lots of people with __alent_ don__ actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have __alent.

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorous dramatization of story

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

Good editors are priceless.

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you__l end up with less of either.

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went.

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.

I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.

I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

I don__ do math.