885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Search for the possibilities. Let her imagination go. She breathed in deep and focused.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

All forms of art are parallel expressions. Writing is not unlike painting or other artistic endeavors. Each artistic endeavor is an expression of the mystery of the world. The job of the artist is to deepen that mystery, express reverence for the mystery of life, and explore the enigmatic aspects of human nature.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.