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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.
— H.P. Oliver
Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong.Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam — Stephanie Skeem
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
— Fennel Hudson
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
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
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
— Margaret Atwood
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
— John Edgar Wideman
If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
— Mick Jagger
Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer. — Alessandra Torre
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
— Arthur Plotnik
I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
— Robert Bringhurst
When I discovered music - when I discovered the craft of shaping a song - my being fell into place.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.
— Jonathan Weeks
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
— Thomas Lennon
It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.
— Jacqueline Briskin
I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.
— Joe Coomer
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
— Milton Lomask
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
— John Steinbeck
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
— William S. Wilson
For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.
— Brett Armstrong
When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above? — Gustave Flaubert
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
— Jennifer Hudson Taylor
You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
— Linus Pauling
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
— William Faulkner
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Gene Fowler
Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood... — John Geddes
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Don't be afraid of what you're creating.
— Christy Hall
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
— Danielle M. Maistry
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
— James Scott Bell
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
— Henry Petroski
My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
— Gene Wolfe
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
— Alan Lightman
Writing is not necessarily in the planning but about learning the craft of letting the imagination change that plan
— Mark Draycott Author
What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.
— Fennel Hudson
poems are small moments of enlightenment
— Natalie Goldberg
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.
— William Zinsser
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
— James Robertson
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.
— Penelope Fitzgerald
On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.
— Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.
— Peter Tieryas
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
— Hannah Harding
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
— John Steinbeck
In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
— Joseph Brodsky
I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.
— R. YS Perez
Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus
— Peter Godfrey-Smith
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
— Joanna Penn
When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete ... you feel as if you could do anything.
— Christy Hall
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
— Jennifer Crusie
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates