Quotes About Writing Quotes

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writing is, going out to meet the ghosts of the future. Not out of the past, not the ones that are dead and buried. Ghosts of the future, those who don't exist yet.

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

How would you start to write a poem? How would you put together a series of words for its first line—how would you know which words to choose? When you read a poem, every word seemed so perfect that it had to have been predestined—well, a good poem.

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story