119 Quotes About Writing-books

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??

If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.

A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger tale.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.

A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't stop it. Just let yourself think of anything, no mater how silly the thoughts seem. Remember, not to judge these thoughts. This will open up your creative receptors. You'll begin to think outside the box. Then the good stuff will start racing through you. That's when you start writing!

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, "How do you write a book?" The answer is, you just write.

Publish. Be damned. Repeat.