885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it’s ignites.

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.

Write.Write it right.Write it wrong--but write it!