885 Quotes About Writing-advice

Make it unique and make it shine.

It's not pain. It's raw material.

Ignore people who say you can't do it, even if this person is yourself.

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

I’ve had situations when I’ve actually encouraged authors to self-publish because their book was poor. Now one would conclude that I’m asking them to self-publish because their book was poor and the self-publishing warehouse is where all the poor books belong. But no, it’s because “poor” is only my opinion, and I’m just one in millions of readers.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

Live first, write second.

I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.