I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.
The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
A migraine is the cockblock of writing.
I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.
We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.
Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.