Top 70 Writing Tips Quotes
#1. Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.
Chelsea Cain
#2. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
Carla H. Krueger
#3. The first thing I check once I'm inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What's the temperature, and how powerful are the winds? The difference between walking on water and sliding one's ass across slick ice is only a matter of degree.
Bob Thurber
#4. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?
Margaret Atwood
#5. Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.
Chloe Thurlow
#8. Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.
Chloe Thurlow
#10. Your main character not only needs a goal, she need an inner desire.
Jill Williamson
#11. Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.
A.D.Y. Howle
#12. Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style, but a voice all their own.
Naveed Saleh
#13. I began to write and came to see that writing has the same laws as nature. The simplest way to say something is always the best. Is that simple enough?
Chloe Thurlow
#14. There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.
Don Roff
#15. 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.
Fennel Hudson
#16. Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#17. I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever.
Chloe Thurlow
#18. Women who read are dangerous. Women who write are to be avoided.
Chloe Thurlow
#19. After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day.
Allow yourself to grow in active practice, release that book to the world, and do better with the next one.
Uma Nnenna
#20. Write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. The best cure for cranial constipation is emotional fiber. Feel 'something', anything.
Pain, anger, joy; if your heart goes eerily cold or leaps erratically from your chest, your synaptic bowels will soon find release.
Muse
#22. Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
Carla H. Krueger
#23. Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
Don Roff
#25. 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
#26. 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.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?
Roger Ebert
#29. Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that.
Arti Honrao
#31. Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
Varsha Dixit
#32. There are no tips for life neither for travelling
Guido Colombo
#33. Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
J.R. Moehringer
#34. I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
Iman
#35. The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
Carla H. Krueger
#36. I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
Poppy Z. Brite
#37. When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.
Jonathan Franzen
#38. If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.
John Gardner
#40. The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
Fred Saberhagen
#41. Gavin said that writing novels with a PC was supposed to be easier than writing with a typewriter and bond paper, or with a pen and foolscap, or with a chisel and a granite obelisk imported from Greece. I shook my head with pity as he related this canard to me.
Gary Reilly
#42. Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be the best that you can be.
Patti Roberts
#43. Do not write for the many who would disparage your words but for the few who would die if not for the consumption of your works.
J.N. Race
#44. Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.
Woody Allen
#45. If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.
Eliza Green
#46. The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
John Gardner
#48. Write what you know. But make sure someone else would want to know it too!
Matthew Culberson
#49. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
#50. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#51. Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.
Uma Nnenna
#52. Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward
J.R. Ward
#53. We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
Teresa Mummert
#54. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Carla H. Krueger
#55. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Carla H. Krueger
#56. 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.
Tom Robbins
#57. The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#58. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.
Mike Mehalek
#59. The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#60. Don't just tell me your brother is funny-show me what he says and does and let me decide whether I want to laugh.
Dennis G. Jerz
#61. When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are the character. If you can do those things your book will become reality to readers.
LaQuita Cameron
#62. the most important in writing it should be from you heart
Endik Koeswoyo
#63. Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
Muse
#64. Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there.
J.R. Young
#65. If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.
Don Roff
#66. People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"
From the worst moments in my life.
I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.
Sandy Nathan
#67. Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
Don Roff
#68. Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.
Noah Lukeman
#69. You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit out of your reader.
Larry Correia
#70. Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
Don Roff
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