426 Quotes About Writing-craft

Writing is therapy with the Soul!

If writing didn't create emotional risk, then it wouldn't be worth doing.

Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.