Writing Tip Quotes

#1. The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

David Almond

#2. I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

William Luce

#3. Kethry had once described summoning as being like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

Mercedes Lackey

#4. Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Shannon Celebi

#5. Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.

Wayne Hoss

#6. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Don Roff

#7. Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

Shandy L. Kurth

#8. A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Don Roff

#9. One page a day, seven a week, thirty or thirty-one to the month. Fishing in his pocket for a tip, he came up with his pen, a thick black fountain pen. Fountain: it seemed less flowing, less forthcoming than that, in shape more like a bullet or a bomb. ("Novelty")

John Crowley

#10. In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Sue Townsend

#11. Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.

Bonnie Friedman

#12. The luckiest people are the hardest working people. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#13. If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

Denis Diderot

#14. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

#15. You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

Genevieve Gerard

#16. I'm not looking for the perfect man. I'm looking for the man whose imperfections I can put up with.

Devon Ashley

#17. The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Seneca The Younger

#18. Venison Haiku
Deer, O dear, you're
heart's centered in my cross-hairs.
I love venison.

Beryl Dov

#19. Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

Kim Harrison

#20. My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.
Some will love it.
Some will hate it.
That's the nature of art.

Kathleen Baldwin

#21. Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.

Linda W. Yezak