Writing Skills Quotes

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”
― Paul Di Filippo, How To Write Science Fiction

“I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you have it in the first place, you can develop it; if you don't have it, you might as well forget it.

But I have found that people who don't have it are frequently the ones hell-bent on writing stories. I'm sure anyway that they are the ones who write the books and the magazine articles on how-to-write-short-stories. I have a friend who is taking a correspondence course in this subject, and she has passed a few of the chapter headings on to me—such as, "The Story Formula for Writers," "How to Create Characters," "Let's Plot!" This form of corruption is costing her twenty-seven dollars.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“With God All Things Are Possible!”
― Tasha Dunn, Plotting A Fantasy Novel: Learn Elements of Plot and Structure, Outlining Scenes, Outlining Chapters, and Create a Compelling Book

“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.”
― Sudakshina Bhattacharjee, Improve Your Global Business English: The Essential Toolkit for Writing and Communicating Across Borders

“You ought to write grateful gratitude every day”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Causality is to the writer what melody is to the songwriter: a superpower that the audience feels as the crux of the matter; the thing the audience actually shows up for; the hardest thing to do; that which distinguishes the competent practitioner from the extraordinary one.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Prof. Emi Ito said “Lailah, if you can’t explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“For example, one key character who was definitely not supposed to die did just that. I did everything I could to get her up again, but she just... died on me.”
― K.M. Weiland, Outlining Your Novel

“I played pinochle with my grandmothers. I thought I was the only person under the age of sixty who knew how to play. He also used the Oxford comma. That has to mean something, doesn't it?”
― Amy Bellows, A Handkerchief for Kade

“Hay personas que escriben tan extraordinariamente bien que me parece que podrían demostrar cualquier cosa. Siempre me parecía que tenía razón el que escribía mejor y con mayor belleza”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas