426 Quotes About Writing-craft

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

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Solitude makes a writer weave magic with his magic.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

I killed it," Athan lamented. "I am a fool." His righteous anger, his arguments, his adoration for the being who claimed Eldaloth's name faded and disintegrated with all the suffering life behind him. A poisonous dread seeped as deep into his soul as the exultant honor and pride he had felt just minutes before. The vast gap between the two emotions a crater into which his very soul plummeted in free-fall.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.