Writing Quotes

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "You must write every single day of your life." "You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot." "I quote others only in order the better to express myself." "There are three things worth having in this world: courage, good sense, and caution in those who speak better than they write" "The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer" "Writing is the craft that defies technology" "The magic is only in what books say." "A writer wields the power to thrive on dialogue and reach into the human soul." "It's no small thing to take the risk of writing for a living." "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient." "An author in his book must be like God in the universe." "As a writer you should not judge, you should understand." "Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way." "To hell with more. I need more dreams and more writing." "The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love." "Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up "