I believe that we don’t choose our stories,” she began, leaning forward. “Our stories choose us.” She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. “And if we don’t tell...

Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.

Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that today is an important day in history.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won’t get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Sometimes, I’m brave.Sometimes, I’m just stubbron.

I’m going to write a novel and get it published. I’m going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.I’m going to do it because...

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her...

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Let your characters lead when you’re dancing together.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

It’s all mine, it’s all sacred.

We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.

Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your...

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

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.

The writer’s silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

Writing starts with living.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Life is not a submarine.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

I disagree with the advice of ‘write about what you know.’ Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer…THIS IS IT.

Your story must told.Live a life legacy- written book or notes.This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit...

…people quote proverbs without realizing they’re really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression…

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that’s too much pressure and you’ll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun and a good way to get your feet wet.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

I tell everyone who asks me about writing…almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it’s that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

For every idea that’s been done to DEATH, there’s a child being BORN who hasn’t read it yet. Don’t kill your dragons.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Ten good lines out of four hundred, Emily—comparatively good, that is—and all the rest balderdash—balderdash, Emily.””I—suppose so,” said Emily faintly.Her eyes brimmed with tears—her lips quivered. She could not help it. Pride was hopelessly submerged...

I don’t get writer’s block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for...

Writer’s block isn’t always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

Ignore people who say you can’t do it, even if this person is yourself.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are...

Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do not with the evidence but with the witness. The point is not the...

The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons.

According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a ‘poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,’ since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the...

For me, art that’s alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

But if you don’t understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.