13 #Writing #Quotes

There are “secrets” to making a story work — but they apply only to that particular writer and that particular story. You find out how to make the thing work by working at it — coming back to it, testing it, seeing where it sticks or wobbles or cheats, and figuring out how to make it go where it has to go.
~Ursula K. Le Guin

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
~James Michener

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
    ~Barbara Kingsolver

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself.
~Patricia Highsmith

Very few writers know what they are doing until they've done it.
~Anne Lamott

The only writer to whom you should compare yourself is the writer you were yesterday
~T Pynchon

Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don’t try to please anyone else, and don’t be afraid of anyone.
~Sallie TISDALE

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
~Cyril Connolly

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
~Richard Peck

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
~Stephen King

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.'
~Beatrix Potter

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
~Louis L'Amour

Writing a book is like having an empty pool in the yard and every day going out and throwing in a cup of water to fill it.
~Bethany Ball