Top 100 Writing Writing Advice Quotes

#1. I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

William Zinsser

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#2. Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#3. You're writing someone's 'future' favorite book.

M. Kirin

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#4. Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

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#5. Write at the edges of the day.

Toni Morrison

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#6. They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams.

Haruki Murakami

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#7. Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Rob Bignell, Editor

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#8. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.

Max Hawthorne

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#9. If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

Henry Miller

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#10. Writers, that deep dark secret is not something you should hide from the world. It is your gift. Take it from memory and illuminate it in literature,shake the dust from it, unless it will get you arrested, lol.

Kevin R. Hill

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#11. ...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Rob Bignell, Editor

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#12. Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Philip Athans

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#13. To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

David Maxwell

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#14. There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.

Gudjon Bergmann

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#15. If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

R.A. Salvatore

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#16. Your story must told.
Live a life legacy- written book or notes.
This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#17. Great content inspires action.

Dane Brookes

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#18. Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

David Hare

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#19. What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Isaac Asimov

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#20. My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Michael Scott

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#21. 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Brian Clark

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#22. I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

Jack Jordan

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#23. I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

Christy Hall

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#24. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.

King Samuel Benson

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#25. No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one ...

John Geddes

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#26. When you're writing fiction or poetry ... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing ... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Raymond Carver

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#27. To Grandma,
for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I've ever received: Christopher, I think you should wait until you're done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Chris Colfer

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#28. I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

Ray Bradbury

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#29. Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

Gudjon Bergmann

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#30. Act one: put your characters in a tree. Act two: throw rocks at them. Act three: get them down again.

Anonymous

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#31. Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

John Green

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#32. We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#33. You think you have no 'talent'? Write anyway. lots of people with 'talent' don't actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have 'talent.

M. Kirin

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#34. One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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#35. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Roy Peter Clark

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#36. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#37. Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.

Dipesh Nepal

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#38. 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

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#39. A love of writing is far greater than any word count.

Molly Looby

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#40. If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

Eliza Green

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#41. Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one.

Marty Rubin

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#42. Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

Avijeet Das

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#43. Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.

Annie Dillard

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

Shannon Celebi

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#45. The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

Quentin R. Bufogle

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#46. A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Robert Benson

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#47. There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

Darynda Jones

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#48. A watched pot never boils.
It's the same with success. So? Throw that burner on HIGH and just keep on cooking. Dinner will be ready soon.

Christy Hall

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#49. In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

R.M. Donaldson

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#50. When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Amit Kalantri

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#51. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

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#52. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

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#53. What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter's evening.

Truman Capote

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#54. Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.

M. Kirin

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#55. The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Marion Roach Smith

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#56. The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

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#57. I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Donald Windham

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#58. Get down, get naked, get savage.

Ron Carlson

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#59. Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.

Betsy Lerner

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#60. Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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#61. If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Darynda Jones

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#62. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#63. I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

Jessie Snow

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#64. Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

Stephen King

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#65. When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.

C.E. McLean

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#66. When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook - a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Virginia Woolf

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#67. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

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#68. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.

M. Kirin

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#69. Remember ... we don't see objects, we see light. [ ... ] Light can do anything water can do
flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do
paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

Janet Fitch

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#70. Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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#71. How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely ...

John Geddes

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#72. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Dinty W. Moore

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#73. Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.

Bonnie Friedman

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#74. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#75. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

Christy Hall

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#76. One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain

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#77. If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

May J. Panayi

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#78. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

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#79. Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.

C.K. Webb

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#80. Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.

Caron Kamps Widden

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#81. The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Steven Pressfield

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#82. There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

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#83. A good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

Roland Smith

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#84. When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

Alvi Syahrin

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#85. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#86. The living WORD, medicine for the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#87. Writing starts with living.
- Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

L.L. Barkat

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#88. Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.

Sit down, and write.

M. Kirin

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#89. The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Christopher Buckley

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#90. You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#91. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Rob Bignell, Editor

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#92. Anything added can be subtracted; anything verbose can be simplified; anything missing can be found. Manuscripts are not books but negatives waiting for the fixer that turns them into prints.

Chloe Thurlow

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#93. ...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

William Zinsser

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#94. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

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#95. Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me.

Christina Cooke

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#96. Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

Mercedes M. Yardley

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#97. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.

Marquis De Sade

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#98. A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

A. Lee Martinez

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#99. Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Harper Lee

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#100. "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

Harriet Monroe

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