writing-quotes

Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

I like to think I__e written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling me, somehow, as if I'd somehow become possessed by it.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

When I write, I enter a transpersonal state of consciousness, a lightheaded realm of mental imagination, a cognitive place where I can lithely finger the coherent and the absurd. I seek to cross over an intricate boarder where the conscious and unconscious minds meet, traversing the aperture where the real and the imaginary intermingle. I aspire to establish a detached vantage point where I can survey the entire human condition.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.

I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

People on the outside think there__ something magical about writing_