326 Quotes About Writing-philosophy

I cannot in good conscience leave the dear reader hanging with so much baggage as to cause depression.

My novels are written with the purpose of taking all of my character's mess and turning it into a beautiful masterpiece.

Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe the external world, think abstractedly, and organize the material that structures the content of their mind.

When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the world, and it's precious, but the world may not like your gift.

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.

There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.

Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one.

One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.