Best Writing Tips Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The creative process is a brave one. The word courage comes from the Latin and French words for heart, so keep coming back to loving kindness toward yourself as you write. Keep showing up with compassion for yourself, and you’ll get to where you’re wanting to go.”

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Book:WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within

Source: WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within

“Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.”

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Book:Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life

Source: Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

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Author:Oliver Markus

“The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages. (....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…”

Source: One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.”

“Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.”

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Author:Muse

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

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Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.”

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Author:Don Roff

“Here’s the deal, peeps—if you’re writing only for the love of money, quit now because you’ll never make enough. But if you’re writing for love and expression, you’ll never be able to write enough. That’s the difference.”

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Author:Don Roff

“For example, one key character who was definitely not supposed to die did just that. I did everything I could to get her up again, but she just... died on me.”

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Book:Outlining Your Novel

Source: Outlining Your Novel

“On jealousy: You may also need to deal with jealousy. When someone is jealous, they may try to “take it, break it, or denigrate it.” Criticism can originate from jealousy’s ‘denigrate’ motivation. Criticism can also start from someone trying to take your voice, or spirit, and break it. [p. 96]”

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Book:Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

Source: Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene.”

Source: How to Make a Book

“Writing is sharing. You share what you have. Great writers have more to share”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“That's being yourself. Chasing wherever inspiration goes, even if it's radically different from the thing that people know you as.”

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Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“Use exclamation points sparingly, you don’t want to give someone a heart attack!”

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Author:Nanette L. Avery

“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”

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Author:Amaya Ellman

“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

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

Book:Pearls Of Eternity

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“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.”

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Book:The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

Source: The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

“Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.”

“W. Somerset Maugham once said there were three rules for writing a novel and that no one knew what they were. I do: 1. Write 2. Rewrite 3. Two writes don't make a wrong!”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“فوّت القطار إذا شئت، فإنّ فرص الرحيل هنا تتكرر مثل الحب والمطر...”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“ثق بامرأة تقرأ... في النهاية، كل الرجال روايات مملة…”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“فلنفترق كيدٍ تقول لوردةٍ لن يستريح العطر حتى يرجعا…”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“تموتُ القبلة الاولى إذا استأذنتها... نص قديم، ولكنه ما زال صالحاً لأن كل لقاء جديد هو لقاء أوّل بالضرورة!”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“لست وحيداً ما دمت محاطاً بكل هؤلاء الأصدقاء المختبئين في الكتب... في البيت، وحده المطر يطرق على الأبواب...”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“العمر أقصر من قرنفلةٍ، أحبك، والمسافة بيننا ولدٌ يتيمٌ، قد تصير له قبائل لو هممت بوحدتي...”

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Author:Mahdi Mansour

“I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in which specific characters and events influence each other to form a meaningful narrative. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing. When they realize that they aren't writing stories, they decide that the remedy for this is to learn something that they refer to as "the technique of the short story" or "the technique of the novel." Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.”

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Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“If Fifty Shades is your idea of a good book, you have no idea what a good book is.”

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Book:Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”

Source: The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But if there's a shirtless guy on your cover, or your title includes the words billionaire, alpha-male, werewolf or werebear, your "book" is probably a pile of unimaginative, derivative drivel devoid of a single original thought. Yet another poorly written romance clone the world didn't need.”

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Book:The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance