Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. Even if you’re writing, don’t call yourself a writer. Say instead, ‘I write.’ It’s the verb that’s important, not the noun.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

when people stopped having enough money to make long distance calls, or the energy and time to write, they disappeared [“The Basement,” The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dippedCarrotOn my bed, my green comforterdraped over my knees like a lumpy turtle,I think about the Berlin Wall of years that...

A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and...

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists – when you’re an author, you can be any of these things, and you don’t need a...

I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there’s so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to...

He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go,...

Always write to change society for the better.You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby’s bum.

We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day,...

…open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering…

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we’ll write for the rest of our lives.

I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes.

The code of the coward is to run away. I know, because I wrote the manual.

I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours...

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a...

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what...

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you’ll never write.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place,...

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing...

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

A boy with a story must write.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of...

Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name,...

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Write about the desire you dare to dream.

My name is Yogurt Vonnegut, and I write with a spoon.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.