There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Doris Lessing
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
You can fix anything but a blank page.
Nora Roberts
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
C.J. Cherryh
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
Anne McCaffrey
I advise writing to oneself. If you don’t want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
S.E. Hinton
To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.
Allen Ginsberg
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, I think, is to read!
George R.R. Martin
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What Ernest said about characters is so true…
I love the C.J. Cherryh quote. On some days, I feel like all that gets on the page in one session is just garbage. Then, I hope that when I return back to edit, I’ll have better ideas then.
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A fantastic list of quotes to keep your pen to paper!
I really enjoyed and needed this. THANK you! 🙂 Love your theme…the pic & colors just draw me 😉
Awesome qoutes, thank you for sharing these.
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All the motivation you’ll need, stashed in one place. I needed this so badly!
These remind me of the quotes you’d see in the English teacher’s classroom who actually inspired you, opened your eyes to the beauty of things like…reading and writing.