426 Quotes About Writing-craft

You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

Rule 1: Each scene must advance the plot and the characters, but more importantly, the plot and characters must advance the theme.Rule 2: Do not be obvious about rule 1.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

Words sing and dance too!

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel.Eric Leed

Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion.