Writing Quotes - Page 12

I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!

If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess.

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.

I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.