885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Just keep the stylus moving.

Go on and ignore your calling as a writer; and see how neurotic you’ll become. Those stories and ideas need to come out. Free them and heal yourself.

Write until somebody responds.

Beautiful prose is a floundering fish if it doesn't have a story to swim in.

The success of any endeavour is related to the depth of the emotional and intellectual connection you have with it. Very often, writers select topics to write about that diverge from what interests them. Or to talk about subjects of which they’re not firmly grounded – probably driven by some egoistic motives. What ends up happening to them is that they do not create decent work.

The urge within you to write exists for a purpose, and to give it breath is your obligation.

You need to embrace your process

Being a writer that doesn't read is like being a chef that never tastes anyone else's food.

I saw a post the other day where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they’ve read as a way of greeting their favorite characters. Try that with one of my novels, and you’ll walk away counting your fingers!