1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure

Never stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done!

Write every sentence as if it's your last.

Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

Every person has a story; every person has a wound that he or she seeks to heal.

Looking through my internet history you'd think I'm trying to kill someone but really I just want cool names from dragons.#this week on murderer or writer

The wise man listens to the women in his life.

The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.