Because every
story begins
with words

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It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.