Writing Advice Quotes

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Write the words on your heart.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

On the Writing Process:"When in doubt, take it out.,

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

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

Writers are born, not created.

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

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

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You were meant to write this book.

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

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.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Ignore people who say you can't do it, even if this person is yourself.

Write as though your life depended on it.

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don’t be demotivated

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.

Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.