176 Quotes About Writing-tips

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

You know what I love about writing non-fiction? The story is already there. I just have to write it down.

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

When one sense is diminished, the others burn more brightly. In a blindfold, you feel every minute motion of his hand as it crosses your body, his fingertips finding secret places, his palm on bare buttocks, his cock nudging at your clitoris.