176 Quotes About Writing-tips

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Mother Nature is a great writing teacher; she never misses a chance to make you smell the flowers and then takes them away. There, she says, “now produce a rose.

I used to think that writing is written to be read; it isn't. Writing is written to be written.

It doesn't matter how long it takes to get there. It only matters that you keep plugging along.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.