119 Quotes About Writers-on-thinking

If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs

You never know what you will write until you write it

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

Writing is an admixture of exposition, introspection, observation, deliberation, rumination, reflection, clarification, meditation, and expression. Perhaps no other activity offers a thoughtful person with as precise a means to inspect and marshal together their fragmented thoughts than writing.

Every book has its ancestors

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.