Best Aspiring Writers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“If you think there is no time to write now, there will never be.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, and so on. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“A writer can do without food for a few hours but not without the sight of books.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a smaller number of words.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.”

Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your dreams. If you want to be a writer, do it! Study hard to show that you have a passion for it. Read as many books as you possibly can. Attend workshops. Take classes that focus on English and writing skills. Research. Write everyday; even if it's on little napkins at restaurants. Every idea starts somewhere. Never let anyone steal your aspirations. You can do this. Just breathe and write. The rest will come to follow.”

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Author:Rachel Nicole Wagner

“[Patricia Highsmith] went on to recommend that aspiring writers keep a notebook in which to jot down thoughts or ideas, that they should trust in the power of the unconscious and that they shouldn't force inspiration. In addition, it was important to avoid those who negated the creative process, sometimes people per se. 'The plane of social intercourse,' she said, 'is not the plane of creation, not the plane on which creative ideas fly [...] This is a curious thing, because sometimes the very people we are attracted to or in love with act as effectively as rubber insulators to the spark of inspiration.”

Source: Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“The difficulty lies not in writing well but in earning that ability.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.”

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Author:Chuck Wendig

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage.”

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Author:Shatrujeet Nath

“The biggest thing for aspiring writers I would say is that writing is hard work. You can’t sustain the fantasy that it should somehow be otherwise for you because you are more special or more committed than other aspiring writers. You aren’t sitting down to be entertained by the gods or to entertain yourself. At times it can be a thrill and it feels more like play, but we are easily deceived by whatever pleasures or rewards writing can offer. Exhilarating work is still work. Is it work, or is it play? And the answer is “yes.” Does it sometimes feel like it comes easily or naturally? Yes. But did it really come easily? No. Writing doesn’t offer the rhythmic endorphin hit you get scrolling down the screen clicking on memes. Are you up for the work it is going to take to become successful as a writer? It is going to be harder than you think. You are submitting to forces and to a process that you can’t fully control. There is maybe a tiny bit more control if you self-publish, and there is no shame in doing that, but even that is going to introduce hard work. Probably harder than you think. If my next novel can’t find a home, I’m not above self-publishing it in some capacity and then moving on to the next project.”

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Author:Brian K. Friesen

“Everyone has a book in them! You have a book in you. Write it!”

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Book:How to Write Your Book 101; Everyone Has a Book in Them!

Source: How to Write Your Book 101; Everyone Has a Book in Them!

“It's right for aspiring authors to wait till writing beckons them to write.”

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Author:BS Murthy

“It's right for aspiring writers to wait till writing beckons them to write.”

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Author:BS Murthy

“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.”

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Author:Jeffery Deaver

“My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.”

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Author:Juliet Marillier

“I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.”

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Author:Sunny

“Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.”

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Author:Beverly Jenkins

“It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.”

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Author:John Boyne

“Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.”

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Author:William Kennedy

“In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.”

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Author:Anne Fortier

“The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.”

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Author:Jim Harrison

“I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.”

“The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.”

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Author:Catherine Brady

“My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”

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Author:Chuck Wendig

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.”

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Author:Khaled Hosseini

“There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”

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Book:Area 7

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