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...

Write as if no one is going to read it.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

I wanted to write something that made no linear sense. None. Zero. Something that was 87% pure nonsense, 12% pure alcohol, and 3% orange juice, for a chaser. That formula is accurate, give or take...

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took...

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it – creation is inevitable.

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down?...

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don’t chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story...

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is “FOCUS”…

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can....

A writer writesregardless…even though…notwithstanding…despite…at any rate…anyhow…nevertheless…in the face of…undeterred by…heedless of…and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

Educate thyself through reading

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers’ minds.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

I have never experienced writers block and I’ve written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story...

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

…you fantasize about me reading my poems to you – it doesn’t work that way – I write down everything later – living is not an after-thought…

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, “Of course, and I can talk too.

If I make you read, then I’ll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I’ll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I’ll keep writing.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, ‘This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack is more the editing part, figuring what needs to be cut.

You are a writer. You just need to write.

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Have while you write!

First organizing it on paper isn’t just academic, it’s an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

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.