426 Quotes About Writing-craft

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because it makes it enjoyable, and last, because it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, and it makes you read again.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

While I'm writing, I'm far away;and when I come back, I've gone.