Writing Books Quotes

“When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“The grace of writing is upon me.
I love writing. I write daily.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

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

“You have enough to create what you want.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Writing is exposing yourself to strangers”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”
― Jo Linsdell

“Every book I've read appears in my writing.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“There is always, always, always something to write about.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I bleed. I'm not an author; I'm a writer. Even when I don't want to write; I can't stop! So, how are my books doing? The hell I know! The moment after I publish one book, I'm writing another one! I don't know how my books are doing! I just know that I'm writing them! I'm a writer, I'm a writer. I'm not an author.”
― C. JoyBell C.

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

“One day I will write a book. An epitaph”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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

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

“The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.”
― Mylo Carbia, The Raping of Ava DeSantis

“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is an underlying rhythm to all text. Sentences crashing fall like the waves of the sea, and work unconsciously on the reader. Punctuation is the music of language. As a conductor can influence the experience of the song by manipulating its rhythm, so can punctuation influence the reading experience, bring out the best (or worst) in a text. By controlling the speed of a text, punctuation dictates how it should be read. A delicate world of punctuation lives just beneath the surface of your work, like a world of microorganisms living in a pond. They are missed by the naked eye, but if you use a microscope you will find a exist, and that the pond is, in fact, teeming with life. This book will teach you to become sensitive to this habitat. The more you do, the greater the likelihood of your crafting a finer work in every respect. Conversely the more you turn a blind eye, the greater the likelihood of your creating a cacophonous text and of your being misread.”
― Noah Lukeman, A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.”
― Michelle C. Hillstrom

“We are inspired by divine power to write.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, The Author's Blueprint

“The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.”
― Claudia Bakker

“Every book has its ancestors”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.
--Fire Up Your Writing Brain”
― susan reynolds

“Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ...”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies