I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes…put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out...

The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He...

Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

He’d heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

I don’t do math.

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

You were silly like us.

A writer who’s afraid to express their opinions is not a writer – they’re just a person with a pen.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

i didn’t call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a...

I must kill some memories,the heavy ones first and aftermake righteous of my un-even soul.

A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought...

It isn’t dying I’m afraid of, it isn’t that at all; I know what it is to die, I’ve died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else....

There was a day when writers actually read,” he grumbles. “They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

I want to be a man of letters. All 26 of them.

Writer’s block is just another name for fear.

There’s something with the physical size of America… American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Strong people write bad stories.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

If I remember correctly writers usually find some excuse for their books, although why one should excuse oneself for having such a quiet & peaceful occupation I really don’t know. Military people never seem to...

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw...

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.

Writer’s block’ is just a fancy way of saying ‘I don’t feel like doing any work today.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they breathe. For me, writing is a natural reflex to the beauty, the events,...

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to...

It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of...

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don’t know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened...

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere.

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.