Amwriting Quotes

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.

I learn my world through writing.

There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

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

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.