Quotes about Writing craft

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Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be quite fickle ... If you want to be able to call on inspiration — Etienne de L'Amour, Time and Time Again
Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide. — Jessica Bell
This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind. — Davee Jones
You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, TH — H.P. Oliver
No matter how entertaining, diverse, concise, or detailed, a writing craft book is, it’s not going to work magic on you, — Jessica Bell, Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing
Find the problem, find the story. — John Brown
During 30 years of earning my daily bread as a writer I have learned many lessons about our craft. The most significant — H.P. Oliver
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this — P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off — Pearl S. Buck
In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, — Anton Chekhov
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like — Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination
Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly — K.A.Young
Writing is a team sport. — Chris White