1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language in every way they can imagine—without that adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born.

For me, a story is a vehicle that takes the reader somewhere. Whatever information you may try to convey, whatever you may try to open the reader’s emotions to, the first thing you have to do is get that reader into the vehicle. And the vehicle–the story–the monogatari–must have the power to make people believe.

You have a much shorter period of time in which to make an impression upon your prospects so you must be completely focused with your message-V J SMITH, Author, RADIO AD COPYWRITING BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

Try. You will be embarrassed. Still try. They might not pay attention at first. Keep trying. You will fail too. Never stop trying. You might fall. Continue trying. You will bleed. Yet again, try. Keep in mind, no one remembers the laughter of the spectators like the journey of the man in the arena.

We are hopeless romantics who still fall in love with words.

It's not so much about the tools for writing, it's developing the habit of writing that matters.

Personification, that's what writers do; embodying Meaning and Emotion; manifest human forms from emotional events, and then we hit them with the New York taxicab of Purpose.

Storytelling connects us with all of humanity.

The tug of self-destruction and the desire to defy mortality by creating an everlasting mark upon this world are uneasy acquaintances. The strident edginess behind a writer’s searchlight voice is a product of the natural tension that engenders when an apathetic writer believes death could arrive tonight. Stunned by fear of a hard deadline, the writer is jolted from their state of laziness and mental neglect that trolling inertia dampens their aptitude to love life.