885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

I am grateful to the Lord for blessing my path as a writer.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.