Writing Wisdom Quotes

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.