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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

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner

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

Sometimes you have to tell a a bunch of lies to get at the truth. — Stella Atrium

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana

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,

One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop. — Chloe Thurlow

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

What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way. — Lisa Cron

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Bernard Cornwell

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 the
way 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

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing. — Carol Berg

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

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything. — Lisa Cron

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker

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

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion. — Roman Payne

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

How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again. — L.F.Young

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it. — Mark Twain

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

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

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. — Ray Bradbury

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare

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

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. — Ann Patchett

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. — Val Kovalin

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

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing — Sol Stein

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

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. — Victor LaValle

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

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

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. — Don Roff

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

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

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

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

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

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. — Marcus Aurelius

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