885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Do not forget to write your sacred book.

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

The ideas that lingerand don't go away,become those storiesthat have arrived to stay.

A little writer's block can be a good thing. Your inner-literary critic's way of gently letting you know you're really stinking up the joint. You're off track. Lost in the weeds. Need to go back and rethink things. Sometimes it's simply a matter of temporarily writing yourself out. Yesterday's slow 'n' steady 3 hour, 600 word quota turned into a 5 hour, 2,000 word marathon. The tank's suddenly dry. Take a breather. Let your subconscious work its magic. The words will come.

I think, as writers, we all want a validation to finish our story because there are so many needs to drop it.

So many stories to tell, so less time. Write every day; create art only you can make.