885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on the earth, smell and taste the world around us, the pen scratching against the page, sensory and slow, is the difference between looking at a high-definition picture of a flower and holding that very same flower in your palm, feeling the brush of its petals, the color of its stamen rubbing off on your fingers.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

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.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.