Writing is expressing yourself … You don’t write just to amaze you write to entertain, not others but yourself

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not...

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose...

Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.

Write what you know. Write what you can’t forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.

You can never know enough about your characters

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that’s it. Think about how...

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow...

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I’ve learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled “file and forget,” and...

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare...

Write about the dream you see during consciousness.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that,...

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away – even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I’m not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

I am the perfect version of me.

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it’ll be so long, I’ll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you’ll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe…until I do.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books… Maybe he’ll write one someday.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

A novelist’s characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.

I write to express my love for the humanity.

I’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone...

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that...

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a...

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.