A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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