Quotes on Art Of Writing

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.