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.

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.

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...

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life.

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and then publish the results as an exercise in the absurd.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren’t made aware of them!” ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic… because all you need are some fairies to take your pain away and help you sleep… you take a book to...

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one...

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When...

Não chega lembrar nem querer: é preciso inventar o que a nossa alma nos pede, que não existe feito neste mundo – precisamente para que as almas trabalhem nisso muito tempo. E não se ocupem...

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly.

You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen.

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.

Writing a first draft is like groping one’s way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you’ve forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for...

Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I want to write a book called, “Ten Steps to Asexuality.” Of course, I recommend all those steps be taken in Birkenstock sandals.

I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to narrate.

Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.

That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: “What if?” and “What next?” (A third question, “What now?”, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it’s more a cry than...

I want to write something that means something to someone…the reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is…or that assures them that we are just as lost as they are. I want to...

I want to write a poem about “Truth,” “Honor,” “Dignity,” and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up.

And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous...

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself....

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, … I was there on the page

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’...

I live well with very little things but not without my dignity