At least ten writing sessions.
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
Sometimes writing a novel feels about as rewarding as turning a spit in the fires of hell.
Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.
Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
A great novel is the record of how a character fights with death.
Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.
If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.
Grief was not a stream. It was an ocean.
Good writers are good readers.
Start by asking if this is writer’s laziness as opposed to writer’s block.
A quirky, colorful character overstays her welcome after a few chapters, unless trouble comes calling.
Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later.
Ernest Hemingway had a rather personal way to describe first drafts. To paraphrase, he said all of them are like, ahem, biological waste.
You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.
It’s quite interesting to note that Townes’s colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university...
Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted.
God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. – Benjamin Franklin
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are the...
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