Writing Books Quotes

“Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?”
― Slash Coleman, Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”
― Neil Gaiman

“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”
― Ansen Dibell, Plot

“If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more.

One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.”
― Larry Correia

“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: -

(1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities
(2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;
(3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”
― Khaled Talib, The Little Book of Muses

“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.”
― Jessica E. Larsen

“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one”
― Jo Linsdell

“Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.”
― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno

“A pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
― J. A. Meyer

“Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction – Point of View, Dialogue, Endings, and Revision

“I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next

Kim Cormack”
― Kim Cormack

“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.”
― Brie Edison

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.”
― Alan McCluskey, Boy & Girl

“My mother, who is a pianist and a fine artist, purchased a piano for me. Twice. This was back when I was a small girl. Pianos, of course, came complete with the quintessential piano teacher who whacked my hand with a stick each time I struck the wrong key. I learned a few pieces, yes, but eventually my pen compelled me to write too much and the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind compelled me to climb trees too often. Sorry mom. Coincidentally, books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves... hhhmmmm... I guess I’m still just climbing trees now, but in a different way!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.”
― Monika Pardon

“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.”
― Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers

“Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their own.”
― Naveed Saleh, The Complete Guide to Article Writing: How to Write Successful Articles for Online and Print Markets