885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

Writers are born, not created.

If you have writer’s block, write about having writer’s block, and you will no longer have it.

W. Somerset Maugham once said there were three rules for writing a novel and that no one knew what they were. I do:1. Write2. Rewrite3. Two writes don't make a wrong!